WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Finding a theme to review
This is step 8 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer If you reached this page via the Theme Team’s blog, and you have not read the previous steps, please go to step one. 1) Say Hello! -We would love to meet you! If you haven’t already, come in and say hello to the…
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Getting to know the requirements
This is step 7 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer For a theme to be added to the Theme Directory, the theme must: be GPL compatible. be secure. be free of PHP or JS notices/warnings/errors. not be in conflict with plugins (e.g. prefixing). be translation ready. use WordPress functions, hooks, filters and libraries.…
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Installing plugins and content
This is step 6 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Plugins Plugins for automated checking against the WordPress Theme Review Coding Standards and requirements are essential for the review. The plugins can not replace a manual review, but they can help us do better and faster reviews. Plugins catches things that we did…
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Set WP_DEBUG to true
This is step 5 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer To be able to test themes, we need to see PHP errors, warnings or notices. To do this, we need to turn on the WordPress debug mode. Locate your wp-config.php file in our WordPress folder. Always create a backup before making any changes.…
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Set up your testing environment
This is step 4 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer You can use any WordPress installation to test themes. So if you already have a test installation, you can go ahead and use that. If you do not already have a test installation, The WordPress Core Team has excellent in depth guides on…
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Onboarding for new reviewers
First, thank you so much for considering helping our WordPress community out by volunteering for the Themes Team. Reviewing a theme can be a very rewarding experience where you can learn a lot from reading and evaluating other peoples code. It can also be very difficult, and it can be time consuming. Last year, we…
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Adding a new block
Go to the List of Blocks There are several ways to add a block to your post or page from the admin screen of the WordPress block editor when you are editing your post or page. You can use the Block Inserter + icon to add a block. You can also use a shortcut slash…
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
You’ll sometimes hear the team refer to “Bloom’s Taxonomy” when talking about objectives and assessments for the team’s lesson plans. So what is that? Bloom’s taxonomy is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The three lists cover the learning objectives in cognitive, affective and…
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Page Jumps
Page jumping, also sometimes referred to as anchor links, is where you click a link and instantly get moved somewhere further up or down a page. This can be particularly useful with a long page. One way to enable this is by setting an HTML Anchor to a Heading block on your page and creating…
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Slides Style Guide
Slides are a much-sought-after resource. Please refer to our lesson plans to access slides for various topics. We are in the process of creating slides for each lesson plan and must the following criteria on the format and file type for our official slides. Backwards compatible Reusable Minimal learning curve Ability to use without internet…