WordPress Help

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

  • Search block

    Go back to the list of Blocks Use the Search block to place a search widget on your page or post. Click Block inserter (+) icon to open the block inserter pop-up window and search for the Search block. You can also use the keyboard shortcut /search to quickly insert a Search block.  Detailed instructions…

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  • Speaker Training Workshop

    Description The Diverse Speaker Workshop (#WPDiversity) is designed for WordPress meetups and WordCamps to increase how many people from underrepresented groups apply to give a talk. This lesson plan is a written summary of the contents provided as 5-part video lectures and other assets. Topics include Finding a talk topic Writing a pitch Creating the…

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  • Using the Theme Customizer (Classic and Hybrid Themes)

    The workshop will share more details on the Theme Customizer in WordPress. The customizer provides a centralized place to change options that control the look of your WordPress site. This workshop covers how to locate and use the Customizer and the options that it includes.

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  • WordPress Taxonomies

    This workshop is on the different taxonomies in WordPress – namely categories and tags. The workshop covers the differences between categories and tags and how to apply them to posts in WordPress

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  • Using the Theme Customizer

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  • WordPress Taxonomies

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  • Using WordPress in Other Languages

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  • Page/Post Settings sidebar

    The Settings Sidebar is used to customize the key aspects of the page or post that is being published. It’s an essential component of the WordPress Block Editor. This sidebar was introduced in WordPress 5.6 and was called Document Settings. It has been renamed now to the Page/Post settings. Depending on whether you are working on…

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  • Contributing to bundled themes

    The next default theme A new default theme is usually included in the last major release of the year. The lead designer and lead developer are part of the release squad. The design is selected and approved by project lead Matt Mullenweg before the development of the theme starts. For the past 3 years, the…

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  • User Management

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