WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Documentation team profile badge
Like many other Make teams, the Documentation team has two different badges: for Contributors and for Team members. Each team defines their own set of criteria for awarding badges. Who decides whether a badge is “earned” or not? The Documentation team has several active projects, led by different people. These people know the effort behind…
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Facilitating the Documentation table at Contributor Day
Facilitating the Documentation table at Contributor Day means helping contributors understand what the Documentation Team does, guiding them toward suitable tasks, answering questions throughout the day, and making sure their contributions are recorded for follow-up and recognition. Before Contributor Day Before the event, prepare to help both new and experienced contributors get started quickly. Review…
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Facilitating weekly meetings
Docs team meets once a week in WordPress #docs Slack channel. These meetings are used for short updates on current projects’ updates and discussions on current issues/problems/suggestions. Meetings require: Meeting agenda – published on Docs team’s blog prior to the meeting. Facilitator – person who facilitates meetings. Notes – published on Docs team’s blog after…
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Reporting an issue
The Documentation team is in charge of several different projects across WordPress.org. These projects use different tools for contributing, and therefore, the workflow for reporting an issue varies depending on the project. This page is mainly for one-time and first time contributors. So, if you are just starting contributing to the Documentation team or you…
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Workflows
In this section we’ll try to explain various Documentation team workflows. We’ll cover scenarios from reporting a single issue as a one-time contributor, to fixing issues, facilitating weekly meetings and Documentation team table at Contributor Days.
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Projects to Translate
The WordPress project has a near-infinite number of translation projects, thanks to the inclusion of plugins and themes in translate.wordpress.org. For new locale teams, and even experienced locale teams, it can be difficult to know which projects to focus on to make the best use of your time. This guide includes some suggested projects, which…
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RSS block
Go back to the list of Blocks An RSS feed is a machine-readable version of the content of a blog or a website. With the RSS block, you can display content from any site’s RSS feed on your website. You can choose to display the Title, Author, Date, and Excerpt for each item in the…
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Writing a post
Should you wish to write a post on make/design there are a few things to go through. Asking to post Usually, you will be an active contributor to the team and collaborate at least first with a team rep. Should you wish to write a post here are the steps: Reach out in #design or…
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Documenting a focus
Preparing To start let’s look at some examples which could fall into ‘Focus’: A11y color/styling work for 5.3 Full site editing: as this starts to happen Writing Create a new page for the focus and link under handbook section ‘focus’. In that page have: Title of that focus. A description. Who is currently working on…
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Current Focuses
A focus is a project that normally takes more time and likely includes multiple people and/or teams. Currently, focuses for design revolve around release roadmap posts and their subsequent projects, alongside scoping out Phase 3 efforts. Design Priorities Projects There are a range of project boards you can use to look at priorities in the…