WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Adding a New Locale – Template
This page goes through the checklist of actions required to add a new locale to translate.wordpress.org. All communication related to adding the locale happens in the comments below the request. When a request for a new locale is added, a polyglots team mentor picks the request up and posts the following checklist as a comment…
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Polyglots Global Mentors and Team Reps
The WordPress Polyglots Team consists of culturally and geographically diverse contributors. Sometimes the difference creates misunderstandings or conflicts, that’s why we have a group of mentors to provide support. The Polyglots leadership team helps new contributors get started, connects the team to the other contributor teams, pushes development improvements in the tools for translation contributors,…
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Giving feedback
Giving design feedback is an excellent way to start getting involved in contributing to WordPress. There are a few places you can give feedback: As a comment on individual GitHub issues and PRs. We have different types that have the design team involved: Issues that needs design. Issues that needs design feedback. PRs that needs…
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Working with Trac
This introduction is intended for new reviewers and does not cover advanced topics. The Themes Trac is a ticket system that we use to keep track of submitted themes. Please note that Trac is also used by the Core and Meta teams. If you are looking for the Core Trac tutorial please go here. Access…
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WordPress style guide
This section documents design across the project.
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Discussion topics
These are past discussion topics: Diversity: how do we reflect the diversity of our users in those designing? What does it look like for WordPress to be design-led, and how can we as a team lead that effort? Outreach inside WordPress: how can we find and also send designers easily to all areas of WordPress?…
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2017: Paris, Community Summit
Discussion topics Onboarding: How do we recruit and attract new designers to WordPress? Retention: How do we retain new designers? Process: How do we communicate a unified design process to contributors? Collaboration: How do we work with other WordPress teams to supply design assistance? Impact: How can WordPress impact the greater design community? Notes https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/06/21/notes-from-community-summit-design-session/…
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Summits and discussions
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Leading a contribution day
First up, thanks for being amazing and taking time to run a design section at your contribution day. This guide hopefully will allow you to do that easily. Why It is really important we have design represented at the contribution days. It is a way for us to get new contributions, to meet each other,…
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First steps
So you want to contribute to design? That’s great. The team is open to anyone and you can easily get started. First up, a warm welcome, we need designers in this project so you are very welcome indeed. As a team we work on all things WordPress. Here are some good first steps as to…