Content type: Handbook

  • Set up your testing environment

    This is step 4 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer You can use any WordPress installation to test themes. So if you already have a test installation, you can go ahead and use that. If you do not already have a test installation, The WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required…

  • Onboarding for new reviewers

    First, thank you so much for considering helping our WordPress community out by volunteering for the Themes Team. Reviewing a theme can be a very rewarding experience where you can learn a lot from reading and evaluating other peoples code. It can also be very difficult, and it can be time consuming. Last year, we…

  • Bloom’s Taxonomy

    You’ll sometimes hear the team refer to “BloomBloom's Taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy is a way of writing lesson plan objectives using specific words so that the objectives can be measured. See https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/ for more details.’s TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post…

  • Slides Style Guide

    Slides are a much-sought-after resource. Please refer to our lesson plans to access slides for various topics. We are in the process of creating slides for each lesson plan and must the following criteria on the format and file type for our official slides. Backwards compatible Reusable Minimal learning curve Ability to use without internet…

  • Lesson Plan Philosophy

    Read this page in other languages: Gujarati (Google Doc) This is my lesson plan philosophy, my way of thinking when I am writing learning and development materials. This is not the only such philosophy available, but if you are new to writing learning and development materials this is not a bad philosophy to start from,…

  • Contributor Day

    This guide is intended to help you get started contributing to the WordPress.tv team at a contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams…

  • WordPress.tv API

    Introduction The WordPress.tv REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”)…

  • Team Profile Badges

    This page provides detailed information on Training Team Profile Badges and the process of requesting badges on your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community…

  • Git Branching

    We roughly follow the git flow branching model. All bug fixes and new feature work is done using new branches that are then brought into trunk using pull requests. Main Branches The trunk branch represents the cutting edge version. Usually, this is what you want to fork and base your feature branch on. Feature Branches Feature or fix branch…

  • Documentation grammar guide

    This is a draft version and we’re looking to improve it with community feedback. General Use American English spelling (-ize and -or, not -ise and -our). Write in the active voice whenever possible. When referring to either the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the…