WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Report accessibility issues
How to report an accessibility issue Before adding a new issue, make an attempt to search existing tickets. If the issue already exists, consider making a comment on the existing ticket to help emphasize its importance or give additional context. You need a WordPress.org account to create a ticket. If you find an accessibility issue…
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SEO Standards for WordPress Copy Projects
The Marketing Team’s recommended SEO Standards for internal WordPress posts and pages factors in key criteria to optimize results for Google SERPs and Facebook’s Open Graph data. This standard is for on page, off page, and best practices for both content marketing and findability. Featured Images All pages and posts should have a unique featured…
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Communication
You will find discussions and a weekly global meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack, and the Marketing blog, known as the P2. We also use tools, including Google docs and sheets, and GitHub. We use GitHub to as our major projects and tasks management tool, and adapt it where we can to meet the team’s needs,…
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What are our tasks?
Marketing Team Tasks As a team our goal is to provide content and strategy for other Make WordPress teams. To that end, our tasks vary quite a bit from writing copy for events like #WPTranslationDay, to newsletter copy for the Community Team, to ways to promote local Meetups, and more. When you join the Marketing…
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Getting Started with Our Tools
Slack The Marketing channel on Make WordPress Slack is the primary communication channel for the team. All of our open projects/ tasks are shared weekly during the weekly asynchronous meeting in the Marketing Slack channel, currently held on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC. Contributors are encouraged to participate asynchronously in the Slack meeting throughout the week.…
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Troubleshooting using the Health Check
The support team utilizes the Health Check plugin to help with troubleshooting common problems with websites, and to provide debug information to help with identifying problems with site setups. This is an introduction to the various elements of the plugin, and how to utilize the various features it provides. When active, the Health Check plugin…
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The CSS class screen-reader-text
WordPress introduced the class .screen-reader-text in 2009 and extended the use in 2015. Joe Dolson wrote a good post about the extended use of the screen-reader-text class in WordPress 4.2. Use The screen-reader-text class is used: to hide text visually that is primarily needed for screen reader users. for skip links to ensure keyboard navigation visibility…
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Skip links
Navigation links, search forms, social media links, or other elements commonly appear on the page before the main content. When navigating using the keyboard, it can be frustrating to get to the main content of a page because of these elements if you need to tab through everything on each page. A skip link provides…
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Get Involved
Welcome and thank you for helping us market WordPress and its wonderful community! We’re so glad you have chosen to be part of the Global Marketing Team. There are so many ways to contribute in the team. At a contributor event, occasionally on particular tasks or more regularly. The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current…
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Good Practices & Resources
Please use the menu on the left hand side to read through this section of the handbook. Items on tools like GitHub and Trello are being updated. To-do