WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Alumni Program: Plan your contribution beyond the WP Credits
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: What you gain by doing this now Your WP Credits program ends, but your access to the WordPress project does not. Every team you have worked with stays open to you, permanently, with no application and no gatekeeper. This lesson is about…
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Alumni Program: Plan your contribution beyond the WP Credits
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: What you gain by doing this now Your WP Credits program ends, but your access to the WordPress project does not. Every team you have worked with stays open to you, permanently, with no application and no gatekeeper. This lesson is about…
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WordPress 7.1 Server Compatibility
The Hosting Team reviews the compatibility between each WordPress release and the server software it runs on: PHP, MySQL / MariaDB and the web server. This post covers WordPress 7.1, released on 19 August 2026. Previous compatibility articles: WordPress 6.9 Server Compatibility WordPress 6.8 Server Compatibility WordPress 6.7 Server Compatibility WordPress 6.6 Server Compatibility This…
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Version Compatibility
Server compatibility details for each WordPress release. Each page under this one records the PHP, MySQL / MariaDB and web server versions that were available and receiving security support at the time that version of WordPress shipped, together with the PHP compatibility work done in Core for that release. For the summary matrix across every…
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WordPress 7.0 Server Compatibility
The Hosting Team reviews the compatibility between each WordPress release and the server software it runs on: PHP, MySQL / MariaDB and the web server. This post covers WordPress 7.0, released on 20 May 2026. This post is published retrospectively. WordPress 7.0 shipped in May 2026 and the compatibility review was not posted at the…
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Agent Skills
The official, shared home for portable instructions, checklists, and scripts that help AI assistants understand WordPress development patterns, avoid common mistakes, and follow best practices. GitHub repository AI coding assistants are powerful, but they often: Generate outdated WordPress patterns (pre-Gutenberg, pre-block themes) Miss critical security considerations in plugin development Skip proper block deprecations, causing “Invalid…
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Practical: Patch Testing
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Why patch testing is the best first contribution Most first contributions stall for the same reason: you need someone’s permission, or you need to wait weeks to find out whether your work was any good. Patch testing has neither problem. Testing is…
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Immediate Contribution Opportunities
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Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
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Contribution Team Deep Dive