Content type: Handbook

  • Setting Up New Make Sites

    Every team gets a free site on make.wordpress.org. Currently, we use the P2 theme on all team sites. If you’re starting a new team or (more likely) splitting off from another team, contact the team in #meta about your needs. Setup Only WordPress.org super admins can perform the initial setup. Because WordPress is wonderful, all…

  • Video Submission Guidelines

    WordPress.tv is a community-run website, and as such as very community-minded submissions standards, with the emphasis on sharing WordPress knowledge freely, as well as growing and strengthening the open source community around it, for the benefit of all users of WordPress. If you’d like to submit a screencast, video presentation or WordCamp video to WordPress.tv,…

  • Contributing With Git

    A large number of contributors strongly prefer working with Git. Since Meta projects are stored in Subversion and mirrored to Git, you can use either one to contribute. The following workflow uses ticket #986 and the WordPress.tv theme as an example, but the same steps can be applied to anything in the Meta repository. If you get…

  • Slack

    Using Announcement Commands @channel is reserved for Slack admins only. Team leads may request access to the /announce and /here commands, which will allow them to @channel for only their channel. /announcement is made to all members of a channel. /here is limited to users currently online. To have an account added to those commands,…

  • Tutorials & Guides

    The following guides are available for the Meta team: Allow Listing IP Addresses Configuring Two-Factor Authentication Contributing With Git Contributor Handbooks Feature Plugin Treatment GitHub Profile Badges Setting Up New Make Sites Slack Subversion Access Translations WordPress Install

  • Automated Release Packages

    Please make sure your locale is always eligible for automated release packages. A release package is a ZIP file consisting of WordPress in its entirety, along with translation files for core, the default themes and Akismet, and any custom changes you may have. Requirements There are some requirements you have to follow to ensure your…

  • Moderator Tags

    As a moderator, you will often find it necessary to let other mods know about the status of a video you are working with. To do this, we use a list of the special “moderators tags” to mark videos in the queue to make other mods aware of the situation. You can also add a…

  • Working with Subtitles/Captions

    Main page for working with subtitles/captions

  • Contributor Handbooks

    Contributor handbooks are located on make.wordpress.org/[team-name]/handbook/. Each team can opt-in to having a handbook. Setup To setup a contributor handbook, a network admin needs to do the following: Enable the Handbook plugin. Create a new Handbook page called “Handbook” with the slug of “handbook.” Go into Settings -> Permalinks and press the “Save Changes” button.…

  • Selecting a Video to Edit

    SELECT A VIDEO: Videos that need processing or editing can be found at WPTV Videos to Edit. Videos are grouped by the WordCamp city. At the bottom of the spreadsheet select the WordCamp you want to work in and click the city. Videos can be in different stages of processing and can be in different formats. Some…