WordPress Help

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

  • Agenda for January 17th Support Meeting

    General announcements Mentions improvement form last week Handbook audit WordPress 5.0.3, how are things going Checking in with international liaisons Time permitting: Open floor For any other items to discuss, please add them to the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be held on in #forums on SlackSlack Slack is a…

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  • Call for design: Site Health Check project

    What is it? Some of you may have heard of the Health Check plugin – It’s a very useful tool that shows people how their website is doing technically. It displays all the relevant technical information about a WordPress installation and offers tips on what to improve. What’s the current status? The intention is to…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda: January 16th

    Do you like devchat? I like devchat. This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : WordPress Leadership is expanding! @chanthaboune and @joostdevalk are excellent people, wonderful contributors for whom I have immense respect, and it’s exciting to see WordPress maturing as an organisation. 🙂 5.1 updates: There’s a new schedule update. Call for triagetriage…

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  • Call for Feedback on Tone and Voice Guide

    Hello everyone, With the guidance of @atachibana and @kenshino, I’ve written a draft for a guide to tone and voice in WordPress. It can be found here. It covers the overarching voice of WordPress as well as the specific tones to use when writing user and developer documentation. I’m not sure whether the distinction between…

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  • PTE request

    Hi Polyglots, please add @shaodan1997 as PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are…

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  • WordPress 5.1 Schedule Updates

    Good news, everyone! WordPress 5.1 is on schedule, and progressing nicely. At the time of writing this post, we have 123 open tickets milestoned for WordPress 5.1, down from nearly 500 a week ago. Thank you to everyone who’s helped triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity,…

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  • Tone and voice guide

    This is a draft version and we’re looking to improve it with community feedback. Tone refers to the mood or attitude of a specific piece of writing. For example, your tone in a personal email might be more informal than one you send at work. Voice reflects overarching characteristics that shouldn’t change much between documents. The…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the theme author for the theme Zakra: https://wordpress.org/themes/zakra/. We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our themes. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #id_ID @riobermano (@tobifjellner) #es_ES @franfernandz If you have any questions,…

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  • Hello Polyglots,

    I’ve just hired translators to translate my plugin – Material Design for Contact Form 7 (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/material-design-for-contact-form-7/dev-readme) – into a few different languages. It seems that even when logged in as 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…

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  • Dear Sir/ Madam

    I’ma fan of WordPress for a long time. I came form Viet Nam and and want make WordPress more popular in here but I see there are many wordpress 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…

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