Content type: Handbook

  • How to Write Meeting Agendas and Recap Posts

    Thank you so much for your interest in taking notes for the Training Team! This is one of the first and easiest ways to get started contributing; this can help you orient yourself to what we’re working currently working on, find the things you’d like to do that interest you the most, and keep the…

  • How-To Guides

    A list of guides to help you contribute to the Training team. If you want to help us document these guides, please let us know in the #training Slack channel. How to Write Meeting Agendas and Recap Posts Developing Learn WordPress How to Use Help Scout Content Localization How We Use GitHub Guidelines for Reviewing…

  • Leading a WordPress release

    So you’re interested in leading a WordPress release as a designer? Or you’re not sure yet what it means? No problem, on this page you’ll find all the information you need to figure out what this role is about. What does a design release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. do?…

  • Building a Glossary

    In the Polyglots Contributor Training course, you can find tips on organizing a locale glossary creation workshop. To keep your translations consistent, we recommend you build and use a glossary. A glossary is merely a list of words and definitions of words specific to your language. Technical terms are often very specific in certain languages and vary…

  • Building a Style Guide

    In the Polyglots Contributor Training course, you can find tips on organizing a locale style guide creation workshop. In addition to a glossary, a style guide will help keep your translation consistent by giving the localizers on your team a list of rules they can follow: Punctuation Formatting (bolding, fonts, spacing) Tone (formal vs. informal) Notes on…

  • Tests

    To improve compatibility with WordPress, the WordPress HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Team provides tools for hosting companies to run the WordPress automated tests on their infrastructure to improve compatibility with WordPress. These…

  • Lesson Plan Style

    Original lesson plans were written in a script (paragraph) style. Newer lesson plans have more of an outline format, as this was found to be preferred based upon user feedback. We need to determine which lessons need to be revised to the newer format. Example of outline (newer) style: Creating a WordPress.org Account Example of…

  • Theme suspension

    There are situations when a theme that is already in the theme directory needs to be temporarily or permanently suspended from the directory. With the help of this document we want to make the resolution process more transparent and predictable, so that theme authors knows what to expect if a theme does not follow the…

  • Glossary

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  • Contributing to bundled themes

    The next default theme A new default theme is usually included in the last major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” — for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five…