Content type: Handbook

  • Content Creator Onboarding

    Welcome to the Training Team’s onboarding guide for new contributors interested in content creation related tasks in the team! You can contribute by creating the initial drafts for tutorials, lesson plans, and courses. You do not have to be an expert on the topic but can work with the Subject-Matter Experts to get the information.…

  • How to Translate

    Quick Start Ready to get started? Here is a summary of the steps to begin translating WordPress: Review your localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/’s…

  • Team Values

    In January 2023, members of the Training Team participated in two, 2-hour exercises to discover shared values. More details about this exercise can be found in this announcement post, and this recap post. The top five values identified for the Training Team are:  DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging): We create an inclusive environment that…

  • Administrator Onboarding

    Welcome to the Training Team’s onboarding guide for new contributors interested in administration related tasks in the team! Your first contribution! Let us walk you through making your first contribution to the Training Team as an administrator! Come validate some Content Feedback issues by following the steps in the guide below: Validating Content Feedback Come…

  • Validating and Applying Content Feedback

    When users have feedback about the content on Learn, they submit Content Feedback to the team. This feedback is recorded in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid…

  • Subject-Matter Expert Onboarding

    Welcome to the Training Team’s onboarding guide for new contributors interested in providing subject-matter expertise related tasks in the team! What is a Subject-Matter Expert (SME)? Generally speaking, a subject-matter expert is someone who has extensive knowledge in a particular field or area and can provide advice, guidance, and direction in that subject. Within the Training Team,…

  • Learn WordPress Release Prep & Triage

    How do we assess the sources of information about what is coming in a release? This tutorial will share a fair amount of the process. Our team coordinates with Docs extensively on identifying content to be revised and created, and partners additionally with Marketing regarding features for the About page and sourcing social media assets…

  • End-user roles

    End-user documentation roles: General documentation Block editor documentation Feedback curator General end-user documentation Project code name: HelpHubProject URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/documentation/Project GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and…

  • Design roles

    Design contributors in the Documentation team will have different responsibilities and tasks, depending on current needs. The following applies to re-design period in 2022/2023. Responsibilities Review and maintain an accurate sitemap. Create pattern templates for the articles. How do I do this job? Check with other project reps about new articles being published and make…

  • Project based

    Project based roles: Design End user documentation General documentation Block editor documentation Feedback curator Developer documentation Advanced administration handbook Block editor developer handbook Code reference handbook More Info curator User Notes curator Common APIs handbook Plugin handbook Theme handbook Contributor documentation Documentation team handbook