Content type: Handbook

  • Signup

    Lets get started with step 1 – 3: Create a WordPress.org user account or login. Complete your profile: Bio, interests, etc. Join Slack. Visit make.wordpress.org/chat/ and sign up using your WordPress.org user account. You can then join the theme review team in #themes. All our meetings are done in Slack. Checkout when our next one will be. Subscribe to the blog…

  • Moderator Enforcement Guidelines

    These guidelines are expected to change over time, as the user base of WordPress evolves. When enforcing various guidelines, there are certain expectancies as to what steps should be followed, and how to behave in a given situation. The following serves as a fixed reference on how to treat topic and scenarios, to ensure a…

  • Omit Details Moved to Taxonomy

    Lesson plans have had several different templates to start writing lessons with over the course of the team. Since moving to Learn, some of these details have become custom meta taxonomy. We are using the Edit Flow plugin to create administrative taxonomy. This will not display on the published view of the site. Leave a…

  • Code Snippets Review

    Our lesson plans have code snippets. We’ve moved from storing the lesson plans on this team handbook to GitHub and then to Learn. As such, some bits of code may not be formatted correctly. We are using the Edit Flow plugin to create administrative taxonomy. This will not display on the published view of the…

  • Fixing Broken Images

    The Training team is undergoing a large audit of all lesson plans on the Learn site. Would you like to contribute by adding screenshots to our lessons? Here is our quick overview of how to get started: Steps to Get Started: Review our Screenshots guidelines Introduce yourself in the #Training team channel on WordPress Slack or…

  • WordPress Core About page

    Every WordPress release has an About page. It is shown to users after they finish updating to the new version, and it tells them what the new features are and who contributed to making them. This is a great marketing opportunity as lots of people get to see this page. It would be fun to…

  • Shortcuts to Translation Projects

    The WordPress project is large, with a lot of different parts. For many locales, a lot of our translation efforts focus on translating themes and plugins. Of course, this includes revisiting the theme and/or plugin page multiple times to finish an existing translation, or to check for new translations. Here are a few options to…

  • Set up a local instance of HelpHub

    What is HelpHub? HelpHub is a code name for WordPress end user documentation. It lives at wordpress.org/support. The problem of setting up HelpHub locally When set up locally, HelpHub will be a standalone WordPress install while WordPress.org is a network of networks. This network is sharing header and footer so the code we get from…

  • Contribute developer documentation to Gutenberg

    For detailed instructions with the steps and commands from the video, see the Git Workflow documentation in the Block Editor Handbook.

  • “How to” videos

    Getting started with open source project is always difficult, especially in a large and complex one, such as WordPress is. This is the reason we recorded video tutorials about the most common problems new contributors face when starting contributing to Docs team. End User Documentation HelpHub Content: Development: Set Up a Local Instance of HelpHub…