Content type: Handbook

  • 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…

  • Moderator Buddy System

    A new moderator will be paired with a lead moderator. In general, new moderators should communicate with their “buddy” using SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. The lead moderator will then assign the new moderator a video by entering the new moderator’s…

  • 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 WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to…

  • 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 (WordCampWordCamp…

  • 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 pingPing The act of sending a…

  • Helpful Tools

    Avoiding Overlapping Replies WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ “Also Viewing” is a feature which lets you know if someone…

  • 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

  • Accessibility-Ready Theme Requirements

    The “Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag” are listed and explained with the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for…

  • Recommended

    The accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-ready requirements have been updated on May 6,…

  • Support Forums in Your Language

    WordPress comes out of the box localized for multiple languages. This is one of the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. reasons why WordPress has become as awesome as it has today. This page provides a list of support forums in all available languages. Official…