Content type: Handbook

  • Local Slack Teams

    As of June 2026, locale teams, WordCamps, and WordPress communities can create their own focused channels in the global WordPress slack by filing a request in  #community-slack-migration. These can be for teams, communities, or general talk and announcements. For example: General chat in Spanish: #general-es Communities in China: #wp-china Italian Translations Team: #polyglots-it A channel…

  • Projects

    Projects are a way we can help improve different areas which are related to themes on wordpress.org. This is where we will be collecting all of our current and future projects. If you have an idea for a project please suggest them during a team meeting. We will define new projects to put emphasis on…

  • [OLD] HelpHub development

    Note: This project was completed. Thank you for your contribution. Development is being managed through GitHub. Guidelines for development are fleshed out in the repo readme, but if you would like to get involved there then please ping @milana_cap (zzap in Slack) in the #docs channel on Slack. To setup HelpHub development environment on your…

  • Editing articles

    If you want to join the HelpHub editing tasks (Thank you!), there are some ways: Working on issues in the Documentation issue tracker Proof Reading Working on issues in the Documentation issue tracker The Documentation issue tracker is the central place for contributing to WordPress documentation. No actual documentation is hosted in this repository. Its…

  • Frequently Asked Questions

    This FAQ contains the most common questions and answers around translation for contributors, plugin/theme authors, and Global and Project Translation Editors. For translators and editors Should I translate both Stable and Dev?  You’d want to work on “Stable (latest release)” to use the plugin in your language. Strings in “Development (trunk)” are extracted from the…

  • Rosetta for the Community

    Rosetta sites are the local WordPress.org sites, and they are a great way to grow your local community. Everything you post on your Rosetta site will go into the news feed of every WordPress installation that runs in your language. The blog content of the Rosetta site is a great channel to communicate location-specific content…

  • Glossaries and Style Guides per Locale

    In the table below you’ll find links to glossaries and style guides for many different locales. In addition to them, please also observe our general expectations for translations. If your locale team doesn’t have a glossary or style guide, we highly recommend getting started by following this guide and the template. Locale managers can create…

  • How to publish a WordPress version release video

    The process for publishing the official launch video for a new version of WordPress is a bit different than your standard WordPress.tv video, due to the need to keep things hush-hush until the official announcement post goes out on the main WordPress.org blog. This is tricky, as to add subtitles to a video it needs…

  • Editing Video with iMovie

    iMovie is included on all Macintosh computers by default, and is a very capable editor for preparing video for submission to WordPress.tv. This video will walk you through the basic process of using iMovie to perform the kinds of edits you usually see in a WordCamp video.

  • Logos and Graphics

    Want to show off your pride as a WordPress Translation volunteer? Here are some i18n logos and graphics specially created for the WordPress translation community. The logos were designed by Jan Cavan.  All are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so feel free to print them on a t-shirt, or use them any…