Content type: Handbook

  • Welcome

    Welcome the contributor handbook for the Photos Team! About the Photo Directory The WordPress Photo Directory is both a curated source of free, high-quality photographs and a submission tool for Openverse, powered by the WordPress community. Without it, you’d need to use Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, or other sources to submit your work to Openverse. The…

  • Promotional Guidelines

    When presenting a tutorial or facilitating an online workshop, it must be ensured that brand usage guidelines are followed as well as not making sure that people don’t go overboard with promoting the presenter’s own brand/company. The Community Team handbook has set a precedent here that will also apply to Learn WordPress content, so much…

  • Reviewing Facilitator Applications

    When someone applies to be an Online Workshop facilitator they do so from the form on learn.wordpress.org/online-workshops and their application goes into Help Scout. When reviewing online workshop facilitator applications, you need to review the content they would like to facilitate, as well as the person who is applying. For the vetting process of the…

  • Review Training Team Contact Forms

    When someone submits a Training team contact form, reply to them using the “TRAINING TEAM CONTACT FORM: Welcome” saved reply. Mark it as “Closed”.

  • How to Use Help Scout

    The Faculty team uses Help Scout to manage incoming training team emails for: Training team contact form submissions Online Workshop facilitator applications Course applications Content feedback We have a number of Saved Replies set up in Help Scout for you to use. Please do not delete any emails but either mark them as: Pending –…

  • Reviewing Learn Content Feedback

    Sometimes, people submit feedback regarding content on Learn from this form: Report Content Errors and Feedback While we encourage people to submit feedback directly 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…

  • Review Lesson Plan Testing Applications

    When a tester submits interest to test a lesson plan, reply to them using the “LESSON PLAN: When Testers submit interest” saved reply and modify it to be as specific as you need for the situation. Mark it as “Pending”. If the Tester has not responded with feedback, reply to them using the “LESSON PLAN:…

  • Copy Edit a Lesson Plan

    Read this page in other languages: Gujarati, Italian Check for the following: Spelling errors. Grammar errors. Readability (use a tool such as https://www.perrymarshall.com/grade/, we should stay under 9th grade, but technical stuff may differ) (if applicable).

  • Development Weekly Chat Facilitation Guide

    The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. Development weekly chat is a community focus meeting held in the #openverse channel on the Making WordPress Slack instance. Meeting Objectives Share any relevant announcements about the project Check in with contributors to Openverse, with the…

  • Brand Usage Guidelines

    The guidelines here indicate how brands can be used and/or mentioned in all content published on Learn WordPress. Goals The purpose of creating brand guidelines here is threefold: Learn WordPress needs to be home to high-quality learning materials that serve the needs of all WordPress users – from beginners to power users – without being…