WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Resources
This page lists the resources available to help you create content for Learn WordPress. Please note that this page will be updated as new resources become available. Please let us know in our #training Slack channel if you would like to help us in creating these documents. Training Team Accessibility Checklist Brand Guidelines Promotional Guidelines…
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How We Work Together
The Training Team has three main places where discussions take place. Team blog https://make.wordpress.org/training/ This is the team’s public facing discussion place. All decisions should be discussed and announced in blog posts to allow the widest audience to participate. These are also indexed by search engines and leave a public record of what the Training Team…
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Lesson Plans
Read this page in other languages: Gujarati (Google Doc), Italian Lesson Plan Overview Lesson plans are guides for facilitators to use while presenting at events or within educational environments and are hosted on Learn WordPress. These were the original content type of the Training Team to support Meetup organizers. They provide objectives, prerequisite skills (what…
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Twenty Nineteen
Twenty Nineteen is the new default theme for WordPress Version 5.0. At the core of Twenty Nineteen is its simple, sophisticated typography. The theme’s aesthetic is minimal and non-prescriptive, allowing it to work well in a variety of applications. For example: it is effective as an minimal, typography-driven blogging theme, but can also be adapted for…
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What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
WordPress vs. WordPress.com People are often confused about the differences between WordPress and WordPress.com. WordPress is the free, Open Source web publishing software project, owned by no one individual or company. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging service run by a company called Automattic. WordPress WordPress (sometimes called “WordPress.org” or “self-hosted WordPress” for disambiguation purposes), is…
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Roles and Capabilities
WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts, creating Pages, creating categories, moderating comments, managing plugins, managing themes, and managing other users,…
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WordPress Privacy
User Privacy and your WordPress site Depending on your national or international privacy regulations (such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation which may be applicable to you) you may be required to display a privacy policy disclosing your collection and sharing of personal data. Personal data includes things like your users’ name, email,…
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Fundraising Policy for WordPress Contributor Teams
This document is to outline a policy regarding fundraising and solicitation within the WordPress Marketing Contributor team. As an open source platform with a team of volunteers, it is important to maintain transparency and fairness for all contributors. As such, it is not appropriate to solicit money or other material resources through the WordPress Marketing…
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Design Table Facilitator Guidelines
This page outlines a baseline format to run the Design Table during WordCamp Contributor Days. It’s not meant to be followed strictly, but it’s a useful guideline especially for people that are running the table for the first time. The idea is to have clear instructions that anyone with some degree of knowledge of the…
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Create a search page
A Search Page is a WordPress Page with a custom Page template to give users more information for searching your site. How to create it? Follow these steps to create a search page. How to test it?