Content type: Handbook

  • Design Table Facilitator Guidelines

    This page outlines a baseline format to run the Design Table during WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor Days. It’s not meant…

  • 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 P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org (example), after putting together a team of volunteers to work on it. For more background, refer to HelpHub &…

  • The team

    Team reps: @kenshino, @atachibana, @milana_cap. Onboarding new members Rep: @milana_cap Content Rep: @atachibana, @estelaris Theme Handbook Rep: @kafleg, @utz119, @poena 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 have…

  • 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. CachingCache A cache is a component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewhere. WordPress…

  • 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 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. Welcome,…

  • 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. BackupsBackup A backup is a copy of computer data taken and…

  • 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 permissionsFile permissions Most file systems have methods to assign permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users. These permissions control the ability of…