WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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WordPress components
What are they? WordPress Components are the set of interface elements that make up the Block Editor and other projects. This includes several user interface (UI) components like buttons, menus, and text fields. You can find them in the Gutenberg GitHub repo or in the Block Editor Handbook. The code for these components exists in…
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Twenty Twenty changelog
Version 3.1 Released: May 20, 2026 with WordPress 7.0 Version 3.0 Released: December 3, 2025 with WordPress 6.9 Version 2.9 Released: April 15, 2025 with WordPress 6.8 Version 2.8 Released: November 12th, 2024 with WordPress 6.7 Version 2.7 Released: July 16th, 2024 with WordPress 6.6 Version 2.6 Released: April 2nd, 2024 with WordPress 6.5 Version 2.5 Released: January 16,…
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Twenty Twenty
Twenty Twenty is the new default theme for WordPress Version 5.3. It is designed with the flexibility of the block editor at its core. If you want to use it for an organization or a business, you can combine columns, groups, and media to create dynamic layouts that show off your services or products. If you…
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Inserting images into posts and pages (Block Editor)
Go back to the list of Blocks Note: This page uses Block Editor. If you are a Classic Editor User, refer this page. When creating or editing a WordPress page or blog post, you can easily add images to a post or page using the Image Block. Note: For the most up-to-date and detailed instructions on…
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Common APIs handbook
Common APIs Handbook serves as a clearinghouse for documentation on all APIs present within the WordPress software as well as APIs available from the WordPress.org ecosystem. Status is managed by this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5HO0889uMB6veCpAHphdDzbL15UOpPVBtBhodPyjiE/edit?usp=sharing Page migration from Codex to Handbook Open the Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5HO0889uMB6veCpAHphdDzbL15UOpPVBtBhodPyjiE/edit?usp=sharing Reserve a target API. Type your name in ‘Docs Editor’ and change…
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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 trac: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/2 Scroll to the end of the queue, where you can find the newly submitted…
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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 GPL, or if information is missing; then you can stop the review until the problems have been solved. Checking the licensing does not…
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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 Trac. Before we go back to the requirements and how to actually check the theme, lets talk a little about how to write the review. -The first thing that…