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 SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Visit make.wordpress.org/chat/ and sign up using your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by…

  • 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 metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites…

  • Code Snippets Review

    Our lesson plans have code snippets. We’ve moved from storing the lesson plans on this team handbook to 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 subscription. GitHub introduced…

  • 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 localesLocale 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/, a lot of our translation efforts…

  • 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.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can…

  • Contribute developer documentation to Gutenberg

    For detailed instructions with the steps and commands from the video, see the Git Workflow documentation in the BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may…

  • “How to” videos

    Getting started with open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project is always difficult, especially in a large and complex one, such as WordPress is. This is the…