WordPress Help

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

  • Blocks list

    Blocks are the components for adding content in the new WordPress Block Editor. There are several blocks available within WordPress that you can easily add to your post or page, move within a post or page and search for. There are different ways to configure and work with these blocks. You can also install additional third…

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  • Theme Sniffer

    Theme SnifferTheme Sniffer Theme Sniffer is a plugin utilizing custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer that statically analyzes your theme and ensures that it adheres to WordPress coding conventions, as well as checking your code against PHP version compatibility. The plugin is available from GitHub. Themes are not required to pass the Theme Sniffer scan without warnings or errors to be included in the…

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  • PTE Request for Popup Maker

    Hello Polyglots, I am 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…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: February 27, 2019

    Attendees: @jadonn @brechtryckaert @abdullahramzan @fahimmurshed @earnjam @mazeheld @brettface @andrewtaylor-1 @joostdevalk Collaboration Proposal @brechtryckaert proposed to look into a collaboration with the marketing team on the “recommended hosting companies”-list (https://wordpress.org/hosting/), since several hosting companies active in this group would be eager to get vetted for this list. @jadonn also indicated that the marketing team also would…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: February 20, 2019

    Attendees: @mikeschroder @mazeheld @brechtryckaert @rawrly @fahimmurshed @Mile @Ugyen @earnjam Housekeeping @mikeschroder reminds us that @jadonn and @brechtryckaert will be helping out with the meetings during his move. He also indicates that extra people to help out with the meeting notes are welcome. Testing Results @earnjam reports he has opened several issues on the PHPPHP PHP…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: February 13, 2019

    Attendees: @mikeschroder @Fahim Murshed @aaroncampbell @Ugyen @brettface @brechtryckaert @kenshino @earnjam @Andrew Jones @RonG Personal Announcement @mikeschroder indicated that he’s moving to Japan, so he’ll be unavailable from now until the week of the 18th of March, when he’ll be fully available again. @brechtryckaert offered to help out during @mikeschroder‘s absence. @mikeschroder also indicated that @jadonn…

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  • Tide Chat Summary: March 5th

    This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from March 5th in the #tide SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel (agenda, Slack archive). Reminder that the current Tide focus is integrating PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used…

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  • Editor chat summary: 6 March 19

    This post summarizes for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 14:00 GMT. GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML…

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  • Marketing Team Notes – March 6th, 2019

    Today’s Meeting Meeting Attended By: @maedahbatool, @yvettesonneveld, @harryjackson1221, @michelleames, @webcommsat, @dhruvpandya, @jenblogs4u, @jonoaldersonwp Notes Taken By: @maedahbatool Slack Timestamp Celebration/Achievements in the Last Week @michelleames — I signed my WCUS organiser agreement yesterday! @yvettesonneveld — Since the schedule has been announced, I am excited to share that I will be speaking at WCLDN. @jenblogs4u —…

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  • JavaScript Chat Summary, March 5th, 2019

    Below is a summary of this week’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat (agenda, Slack Transcript).…

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