WordPress Help

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

  • WordPress embed

    Go back to the list of Blocks With the WordPress Embed block, you can embed WordPress posts into your posts and pages. You don’t need a WordPress account to be able to use it. You can only embed public posts, though. An Example: Steps to embed a WordPress Post Find the URL of the WordPress…

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  • Marketing Team at Contributor events

    We post information on this page of the handbook to help you contribute to the Marketing Team at contributor events. WordCamp Asia 2023 First time contributor? You’ll find instructions in this document Google Doc with the descriptions of all activities and links to documents to use WordCamp Asia Get Started Github issue Resources to help…

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  • Open Source and Design

    Designing for open source projects can be difficult and opinionated. It takes a confident designer to share their process (mistakes and accomplishments) with a community of diverse people. Learn about designing for open source and the tricks to make it a pleasant experience. Michael Arestad: Big Design Troubles in Open Source June 21, 2017 —…

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  • Design and Inclusion

    Inclusive design at its heart is a way of creating products and services that attempt to reach the broadest range of people possible, particularly those in underserved communities.1 Marc Coleman: Diversity And The Design Team December 11, 2016 — The products we build as designers often have to reach a variety of audiences. Some of…

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  • Accessibility

    Accessibility focuses on how a disabled person accesses or benefits from a site, system or application. Accessibility is an important part of the designing your site and should be considered throughout the development process.1 Graham Armfield: Designing for Accessibility May 30, 2017 — The accessibility of a website is significantly affected by the underlying HTML,…

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  • Visual and Interface Design

    Visual design focuses on the aesthetics of a site and its related materials by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements.1 User Interface (UI) Design focuses on anticipating what users might need to do and ensuring that the interface has elements that are easy to access, understand, and use to facilitate those actions.2 Beth…

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  • User Research and Testing

    User research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies.1 Lily Dart: Guerilla Usability Testing June 1, 2015 — Guerrilla usability testing is an inexpensive and speedy way to put users at the centre of your design process. It can help to keep clients focused on…

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  • Translation Collaboration & Team Building Tips

    As with any open source project, collaboration is key to a successful translation community. Here are some tips for building a strong collaborative team. Team Building Recruit contributors Try to find at least one more person to work with you – even at the very beginning Make it easy to find the first & next…

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  • Calendar block

    Go back to the list of Blocks The Calendar block displays your posts in a calendar format. When you publish a new post, it is automatically added to the Calendar block. If you click on a date, it will open the archive of posts published on that date. The Calendar block does not let you create…

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  • Twitter embed

    Go back to the list of Blocks With the Twitter Embed block, you can embed Tweets (posts on Twitter) into your posts and pages. You don’t need a Twitter account to be able to use it. You can only embed public tweets, though. An example: Apart from a single tweet you can also use the…

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