WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Hello Polygots,
I’m the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the…
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The 5 minute review
This is step 12 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Sometimes, we don’t have enough time to review an entire theme. But there are still ways that we can help. Open the New queue on the themes tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like…
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Licensing -assets
This is step 11 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer So far we have checked the license and copyright for the theme itself, and the information on the theme authors website. The next step is to locate assets in the theme folder, and confirm their licenses. The most common problem we find is…
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Licensing, -both easy and difficult
This is step 10 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Always start the review by confirming the license information. If you find that the theme is not 100% compatible with GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL…
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How to write and save the review
This is step 9 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer So you now have a theme, and you have access to the ticket in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. Before we go back to the requirements and how to actually check…
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Finding a theme to review
This is step 8 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer If you reached this page via the Theme Team’s blog, and you have not read the previous steps, please go to step one. 1) Say Hello! -We would love to meet you! If you haven’t already, come in and say hello to the…
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Getting to know the requirements
This is step 7 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer For a theme to be added to the Theme Directory, the theme must: be GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This…
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Installing plugins and content
This is step 6 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Plugins Plugins for automated checking against the WordPress Theme Review Coding Standards and requirements are essential for the review. The plugins can not replace a manual review, but they can help us do better and faster reviews. Plugins catches things that we did…
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Set WP_DEBUG to true
This is step 5 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer To be able to test themes, we need to see PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php errors, warnings or…
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Set up your testing environment
This is step 4 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer You can use any WordPress installation to test themes. So if you already have a test installation, you can go ahead and use that. If you do not already have a test installation, The WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required…