Content type: Handbook

  • Design Table Facilitator Guidelines

    This page outlines a baseline format to run the Design Table during WordCamp Contributor Days. It’s not meant to be followed strictly, but it’s a useful guideline especially for people that are running the table for the first time. The idea is to have clear instructions that anyone with some degree of knowledge of the…

  • Upload to AWS S3

    The standard upload method for submitting a video using the form is really the fastest way to get it online on WordPress.tv. However maybe you have lots of files that are too big or that still need a basic intro added, so a bulk upload might be more appropriate. In that case our AWS S3…

  • Translating HelpHub

    HelpHub feature is available on Rosetta sites. Locale teams can request activation on Polyglots P2 (example), after putting together a team of volunteers to work on it. For more background, refer to HelpHub & Handbook i18n Updates (July 2019) and its linked posts, as well as related meta trac tickets. HelpHub Migration Guide for Rosetta…

  • The team

    Team reps: @kenshino, @atachibana, @milana_cap. Onboarding new members Rep: @milana_cap Content Rep: @atachibana, @estelaris Theme Handbook Rep: @kafleg, @utz119, @poena Block Editor End User Documentation Rep: More Info Curator (Code reference): @stevenlinx User Notes Curator (Code reference): @audrasjb, @crstauf Common APIs Handbook Rep: @psykro Docs Team Handbook: @milana_cap, @atachibana Advanced administration Handbook: @javiercasares, @lucp Meeting facilitators: Issues reviewer…

  • Allow Listing IP Addresses

    During an event where multiple people on the same internet connection, register a new account or sign in to wordpress.org, the internet connection may be blocked from accessing anything on the WordPress.org infrastructure. This is because the mass number of connections can make it look like a bot attack and trigger defences. This will typically…

  • Performance

    This section will cover the basics on configuring services for performance with WordPress. Caching WordPress has a lot of dynamic functionality, but this comes at a cost. Tasks such as processing PHP, querying the database and collecting information from external APIs all take resources and time. Caching saves time for potentially heavy tasks by reusing…

  • WordPress Brand Writing Style Guide

    Howdy! If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in contributing to the marketing and communications efforts of the WordPress open source project. Welcome, and thanks for getting involved. (If you’re writing code instead of prose, check out the Spelling Best Practices page in the Core handbook). About this guide Consider this your field guide to…

  • Reliability

    Once your site is up, how do you keep it that way? And what can you do if it goes down? In most cases, the same best practices apply to WordPress as with other web applications, but some differences and recommendations are detailed here. Backups See Backup. If you are looking for more specific documentation,…

  • Security

    The goal of the page is to inform users who manage a WordPress site about general security best practices both in terms of environment level items, such as file permissions, as well as application-level items, such as setting up proper user roles, so they have a better foundation for security than setting up WordPress somewhere…