WordPress Help

Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • Setting up your video equipment

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  • Video Planning

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  • Why we need Community deputies and what they do

    An Overview of the Supporter Roles Community team Supporters are a dedicated group of people from all over the world who guide event organizers, answer questions, and generally keep things related to Community team events running on a day-to-day basis. They work alongside new and returning organizers to make sure those organizers are not overworking…

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  • First Steps

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  • What is a WordCamp

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  • After It’s Over

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  • Applying open source methods to community organizing

    Transparency, iteration, egoless participation, and embracing imperfection are the tools we use to build WordPress community. One or more of these open source principles are applied to the work we do within the WordPress Community. A prime examples can be seen in the Five Good Faith Rules, expectations set by the community for community organizers.…

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  • Mentoring WordCamps

    Qualifications Right now, only those Event Supporters, Program Supporters, and Program Managers who have been the successful lead of a WordCamp from application to conclusion in the last 5 years qualify to mentor WordCamps. Getting Started Once you’ve finished mentorship training, you will be able to choose an available WordCamp to mentor. If there’s a…

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  • What inclusive, welcoming local communities do for the WordPress project

    Unfortunately, participation can be or feel risky. Some people, especially people who are underrepresented in technology, are more likely to be criticized, ignored, or ridiculed on the internet than in any other setting in their adult lives. Human beings don’t take risks when they don’t feel confident, and we don’t feel confident when our environment…

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  • Mentoring Community Organizers

    Event mentors are Community Team Event Supporters, Program Supporters, and Program Managers who have experience organizing events and want to help other organizers have a great time planning rewarding WordPress community events. As a mentor, your job is the same as every Community Team contributor: to help make official community events easier to organize and…

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