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How Posts Can Be Filtered
So many posts! Where to start? The volume of posts to be found in the WordPress Support forums can be daunting to new contributors. Filtering posts in accordance with your strengths and skills can help you find posts that you can answer and help with. Here’s some ways that you can filter posts: By Theme Each…
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Forum Structure
The WordPress Support forum is split into the following sections: Installing WordPress Members who have bumped into problems when attempting to install WordPress are given help in the Installation forum. Perhaps it’s a testament to WordPress’ “famous 5-minute installation,” that this forum is relatively low-traffic. The threads posted to this forum mainly revolve around issues with…
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IRC
Internet Relay Chat, commonly abbreviated to IRC, is the name given to a chat room. WordPress uses IRC to allow for quick, real-time discussions. Background A lot of people may think “old-school” when you mention IRC to them. This way of communicating online first came to popularity in the late eighties, and got pushed under…
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Tutorial template
This template can be used for creating tutorials, whether they are in the handbooks or elsewhere. This should give you a format to follow and make it easier for you to get started writing your tutorial. You can use this template as a framework, replacing the text with your own. Overview The overview should introduce…
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Handbooks & HelpHub style and formatting guide
In order to maintain consistency across the handbooks, please follow this style guide. The aim of the guide is to help you to create documents that are readable and useful to all readers. Advanced users should be able to scan the document and pick out what they need. But you still need to include the…
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Android
We love WordPress, and we love our Android devices. WordPress for Android helps users create and manage content on their WordPress sites right from their Android devices. The app has been open source since the start and many developers have contributed to its success since the first release in February 2010. If you are interested…
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iOS
WordPress for iOS launched Version 1.0 on July 22nd, 2008 for iOS version 2.0 and by the end of August 2008, it had over 100,000 installs worldwide. As of November 2013, the app has around 750,000 monthly active users. Historically the app has been maintained by a revolving cadre of developers, each adding their own…
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Support Help
You can help move the mobile app projects forward just by attending the support channels. For now, there are different forums for the iOS and Android apps. Eventually these forums will be merged into the main WordPress.org forums, but for now they are separate from the rest. Log in with your WordPress.org account to get…
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Communication
It is important to connect with other contributors and stay up-to-date with what is happening with the mobile apps you contribute to. There are three main channels of communication: The Make WordPress Mobile blog The #mobile channel in WordPress.org Slack. Reviewing the status and history of issues on GitHub. Make WordPress Mobile Blog The blog…
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Colors
Base WordPress Blues These are the primary blue colors used. The two values allow for use in dark and light backgrounds. Base Lighter Blue #1e8cbe rgb(30, 140, 190) UIColor * color = [UIColor colorWithRed:30/255.0f green:140/255.0f blue:190/255.0f alpha:1.0f]; Base Darker Blue #0074a2 rgb(0, 116, 162) UIColor * color = [UIColor colorWithRed:0/255.0f green:116/255.0f blue:162/255.0f alpha:1.0f]; The Blues…