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Communication
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 special “moderators tags” to mark videos in the queue to make other mods aware of the situation. You can add a new mod tag at any…
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Moderator Buddy System
A new moderator will be paired with a lead moderator. In general, new moderators should communicate with their “buddy” using Slack. The lead moderator will then assign the new moderator a video by entering the new moderator’s username in the tag file for the video. The new moderator will be notified (pinged) using Slack. After…
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Approving Manual Submissions
What are manual submissions? Unlike most videos we receive at wordpress.tv, which are submitted using the public uploader, occasionally we get private submissions by admins to the site, which are just blog posts created manually in the wordpress.tv dashboard. You will see these when: A WordCamp organizer has been added to the site and given…
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Approving Videos
Welcome to wordpress.tv! Moderating content here is a fairly simple process. However, wordpress.tv has a few custom features you’ll need to familiarize yourself with and there are some manual tasks that you will need to perform to moderate video content. The following video and text instructions cover some basic guidelines for moderating a video (WordCamp,…
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About WordPress.tv
Getting Started as a WordPress.tv Moderator Welcome to the WordPress.tv ModSquad. This section is meant to guide you through what it is to be a WPTV Moderator, as well as get you started on helping with your first video. If you have any questions along the way you can ping for help in the wptv channel…
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Helpful Tools
Avoiding Overlapping Replies WordPress.org “Also Viewing” is a feature which lets you know if someone else who has enabled the same function – like another forum helper – is looking at or typing in the same thread you’re viewing. This helps avoid duplicate replies on the same thread. The “Also Viewing” tool is automatically available…
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Resources
Please visit the Accessibility Team’s documentation site for information about: Start with accessibility Standards and best practice Test for accessibility WordPress and Accessibility
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Accessibility-Ready Theme Requirements
The “Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag” are listed and explained with the Accessibility Team’s documentation site. Next to the guidelines itself you can find information there about how to document accessibility and how to test themes for the accessibility-ready tag. The accessibility-ready guidelines The following items are required for approval to use the accessibility-ready…
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Recommended
The accessibility-ready requirements have been updated on May 6, 2026 and no longer include “recommendations”.
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Support Forums in Your Language
WordPress comes out of the box localized for multiple languages. This is one of the core reasons why WordPress has become as awesome as it has today. This page provides a list of support forums in all available languages. Official WordPress.org Support Forums Afrikaans Support Forums – https://af.wordpress.org/support Albanian Support Forums – https://sq.wordpress.org/support Armenian Support Forums…