The Docs team needs your help to update and revise the End User Documentation (HelpHub) for the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release, expected on November 7, 2023.
You can find a list of all the tasks in the 6.4 project board in the Documentation repository on GitHub.
The tasks have been sorted into medium priority tasks and high priority tasks. The team plans to complete the high priority tasks by the 6.4 scheduled release date.
How you can help
If you are new to contributing to WordPress, you can review this onboarding post with training videos and links to help you get started.
- Based on what you are interested in, review the medium priority tasks, or high priority tasks.
- Add a comment on the GitHub issue you would like to work on, and someone on the Docs team will assign it to you.
Once a task is assigned to you, the following two videos show how to help with updating the existing articles in End User Documentation (HelpHub).
Once you complete the updates for the particular task, add a comment to the issue you were working on:
- with a note on the changes you made
- and tag the following contributors in the Docs team (on the Make WordPress Slack docs channel add ‘@’ before the ID: femy, LeonardusNugraha, or jenni)
- a contributor from the Docs team will be able to review the updates and add the content to the article
If you have questions or need help, ask in the docs channel on the Make WordPress Slack or directly in the GitHub issue itself.
If your meetup, collective or organization can give a block of time to help, leave a comment on this post or send a message to the documentation channel on the Make WordPress Slack and include the Release co-leads for 6.4 documentation in your message: (add ‘@’ before the ID) @abhanonstopnewsuk, @Femy, @611shabnam.
Resources
If you need a test site with WordPress 6.4 pre-installed, you can use this app provided by InstaWP to spin up a new temporary website. It is preloaded with Theme Test data and other pre-configuration and is ready to go. This new site will be available to use for four hours. After that, if you need another test site to contribute to docs, you can visit the link again and create a new temporary site.
When revising already published content on HelpHub, you can use the Revisions Extended plugin that is already installed. Refer to the video: How we use the Revisions Extended plugin on Learn WordPress.
Where can I find other documentation on the 6.4 release?
The release group with other core and doc contributors have been working on developer notes related to major features and changes in 6.4. The Field Guide for WordPress 6.4 is available and brings together the most important items. You can also view all dev notes via the 6.4 developer notes tag.
Props to @webcommsat for input into this post and its review.