WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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YouTube embed
Go back to the list of Blocks Using the YouTube Embed block you can include a YouTube video into your post/page with play buttons, so your visitor can stay on your site to watch it. You don’t need a YouTube account to embed a video. Not all videos can be shared this way, though. The…
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Facebook embed
Go back to the list of Blocks Due to Facebook’s decision to close the oEmbed end point for embedding Facebook links, the block will not work anymore after October 24, 2020. Publishers who want to embed Facebook links into their sites will require a developer account and an appid, and provide an authentication token with…
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Compressing Videos
Videos uploaded to AWS that have an intro are ready to be uploaded to WordPress.tv However there is a limit of 1GB. AWS has tools to compress (shrink) the videos. Compress 1 single file Log in with your own account, not with the wordpresstv one! On AWS S3: Click on the video file on AWS…
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Most common moderator mistakes
WordPress.tv Approving speakers Do not wildly ‘Approve’ speakers if you have doubts on the name. Start typing their name in the Speakers box to see if they exist already and then select them. Only add a new speaker if you are really sure. Multiple speaker need to be separated. So not ‘A and B’ but…
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Tools: Figma
Familiarizing oneself with the Figma files in the WordPress.org account can be difficult. This document will provide a high-level overview of the Figma structure and help anyone become familiar with the files therein. Overview Figma allows you to design and prototype your WordPress experiences, together, in real-time and in one place. Figma is built for…
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Biweekly team rep update posts
Each fortnight a team rep write an update post on make/updates. Here is the workflow for this. The post is to go on the updates site, written by a team rep. Write the title with date of the update: Design team update <date> Add a little about what happened in those two weeks. Be sure…
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Contributing during major WordPress releases
A new version of WordPress has been released, and you’re looking to lend a hand during a time when there’s often a higher support load than average? This is wonderful! So before we get into it, a huge thank you for wanting to take your time to help users all over the world with the…
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Theme Unit Test
This step in theme testing correlates to a WordPress export file that you can import into a WordPress installation to test your Theme. For theme authors, this is only one step in testing your Theme. See Theme testing for a full guide. Setup Test Environment Setup Clone the theme test data file themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml from the GitHub repository https://github.com/WPTT/theme-unit-test (last updated 30/January/2020). Or Download…
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Design triage: how to facilitate
Design triages are mostly run on an as-needed basis and during a WordPress Release cycle. How to run a Gutenberg design triage session. An impromptu design triage session can be at any time in Slack, feel free to invite other designers to join. The goal is to triage issues in the WordPress/Gutenberg repo on GitHub…
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Background material for locale research
Facebook and Google codes Facebook The available Facebook locales can be found using the following procedure: Log in to Facebook and go to the settings page Select “Facebook language” and right click on the language selection element and choose “inspect element” to open the developer tools Find (expand if needed) the part in the html…