WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ contains the most common questions and answers around translation for contributors, plugin/theme authors, and Global and Project Translation Editors. For translators and editors Should I translate both Stable and Dev? You’d want to work on “Stable (latest release)” to use the plugin in your language. Strings in “Development (trunk)” are extracted from the…
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Rosetta for the Community
Rosetta sites are the local WordPress.org sites, and they are a great way to grow your local community. Everything you post on your Rosetta site will go into the news feed of every WordPress installation that runs in your language. The blog content of the Rosetta site is a great channel to communicate location-specific content…
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Glossaries and Style Guides per Locale
In the table below you’ll find links to glossaries and style guides for many different locales. In addition to them, please also observe our general expectations for translations. If your locale team doesn’t have a glossary or style guide, we highly recommend getting started by following this guide and the template. Locale managers can create…
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How to publish a WordPress version release video
The process for publishing the official launch video for a new version of WordPress is a bit different than your standard WordPress.tv video, due to the need to keep things hush-hush until the official announcement post goes out on the main WordPress.org blog. This is tricky, as to add subtitles to a video it needs…
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Editing Video with iMovie
iMovie is included on all Macintosh computers by default, and is a very capable editor for preparing video for submission to WordPress.tv. This video will walk you through the basic process of using iMovie to perform the kinds of edits you usually see in a WordCamp video.
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Logos and Graphics
Want to show off your pride as a WordPress Translation volunteer? Here are some i18n logos and graphics specially created for the WordPress translation community. The logos were designed by Jan Cavan. All are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so feel free to print them on a t-shirt, or use them any…
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Requesting a New Locale
To translate WordPress in your language you will need to post a request in the Polyglots P2 that a new locale for it be added to translate.wordpress.org. Before you do that, please read this page carefully, follow the steps, and gather the information needed. Prerequisites Check if the locale you are about to request isn’t already there…
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Compressing video for upload to WordPress.tv
To upload your video to WordPress.tv, you will need to make sure that your converted video files are under 1GB in size. If the files you created in your video editing app are over this size limit, you can use another open-source app called Handbrake to compress them so that they can be uploaded. Follow…
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Using The YouTube Subtitle/CC Editor
YouTube automatically generates subtitles/CC for uploaded videos. The accuracy of the speech recognition technology is decent and the subtitles/CC can be easily edited. This editing process can be done at anytime from anywhere you have YouTube access. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796 explains how to add your own captions.
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Moderating IRC
There are two approaches to moderating an IRC room, either by an appointed moderator, or by the users them selves. Diffusing a situation Having users diffuse the situation on their own is always the best outcome, tension might have built up from misunderstandings caused by language barriers or missed steps during troubleshooting for example. Freenode, the…