WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Twenty Seventeen
Twenty Seventeen is the new default theme for WordPress in 2017. Its business-oriented design highlights new video headers, and it has a front-page layout that can be created by combining page sections. The theme can be customized further using custom color options and by adding a site logo, social menu, and widgets. Quick Specs Header…
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Performance
This section will cover the basics on configuring services for performance with WordPress. Caching WordPress has a lot of dynamic functionality, but this comes at a cost. Tasks such as processing PHP, querying the database and collecting information from external APIs all take resources and time. Caching saves time for potentially heavy tasks by reusing…
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WordPress Brand Writing Style Guide
Howdy! If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in contributing to the marketing and communications efforts of the WordPress open source project. Welcome, and thanks for getting involved. (If you’re writing code instead of prose, check out the Spelling Best Practices page in the Core handbook). About this guide Consider this your field guide to…
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Reliability
Once your site is up, how do you keep it that way? And what can you do if it goes down? In most cases, the same best practices apply to WordPress as with other web applications, but some differences and recommendations are detailed here. Backups See Backup. If you are looking for more specific documentation,…
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Security
The goal of the page is to inform users who manage a WordPress site about general security best practices both in terms of environment level items, such as file permissions, as well as application-level items, such as setting up proper user roles, so they have a better foundation for security than setting up WordPress somewhere…
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Server Environment
Although WordPress can work in almost any environment, some environments are more optimal for functionality and performance while others are less so. Below are a few minimum recommendations for server environment configurations within which WordPress operates most efficiently, with consideration for WordPress websites that use third-party plugins and themes which commonly introduce additional server-level requirements.…
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Project Translation Editor (PTE) Request
As described on the How to translate page, translations need to be reviewed and approved before they become available. A General Translation Editor (GTE) can moderate translations and a Locale Manager (LM) can appoint a user as Project Translation Editor (PTE) in the backend of the Rosetta site. There are two types of users who…
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Finding posts about YOUR topic
Perhaps you’re the developer or a support team member for a particular theme or plugin. Or you happen to know all details about a certain technology. Or you just just love joining conversations about how to use WordPress in a certain situation? Subscribing to specific forums First of all. Themes and Plugins have their very…
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Test for web accessibility
The documentation about Testing for web accessibility is now published on the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. There you can find information about: Checklists for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Automated accessibility testing Content checks for web accessibility Design checks for web accessibility Frontend checks for web accessibility Keyboard only Screen reader WordPress plugins for testing…