WordPress Help

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

  • November 1st Support Team Meeting Summary

    General announcements We’re still working on the update to the Support Guidelines, we’re working on them over at GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced…

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  • Core Privacy Agenda – 7 November 2018

    When/Where: Join us in #core-privacy on Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ from 1500-1600 UTC Agenda: We need a facilitator and note-taker for today (@allendav is on travel/AFK) New Meeting Time discussion @desrosj Tickets Update on moving coreCore Core is…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: October 31st (5.0 Week 5)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 31st 🎃 (agenda, Slack archive). 5.0 Planning and Updates We have a lot of PRs that need review, so please pick up one or two if that’s something you excel at. 🙂 A code review team is being create on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that…

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  • Pages Add New screen

    The Pages Add New Screen allows you to add new Pages. Screen options The Screen Options allow you to choose which modules are displayed, or not displayed, in the underlying screen. Clicking on the Screen Options tab shows a list of the columns with a checkbox next to each column. Check the box for each…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: October 17, 2018

    Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on (Slack archive). Attendees: @danielbachhuber @dhsean @ugyen @mikeschroder Announcements/Reminders Please review and suggest/comment on the hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is…

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  • PTE Request for Block Navigation

    Hello Polyglots, I am 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 functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • Settings General screen

    This Settings General Screen is the default Screen in the Settings Administration Screen and controls some of the most basic configuration settings for your site: your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your site, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed. General Settings Site title Enter the name of…

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  • PHP Meeting Recap – October 29th

    This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…

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  • Settings Writing screen

    Use the Settings Writing Screen to control the interface you use when writing new posts. These settings control WordPress’s features in the adding and editing posts, Pages, and Post Types, as well as the optional functions like Remote Publishing, Post via e-mail, and Update Services. Writing Settings Default Post CategoryThe Category you select from this…

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  • Gutenberg Accessibility Progress Report

    Since the release of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 4.1.0, 18 pull requests labeled as accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened…

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