WordPress Help

Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • Tutorials & Guides

    The following guides are available for the Meta team: Allow Listing IP Addresses Configuring Two-Factor Authentication Contributing With Git Contributor Handbooks Feature Plugin Treatment GitHub Profile Badges Setting Up New Make Sites Slack Subversion Access Translations WordPress Install

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  • Automated Release Packages

    Please make sure your locale is always eligible for automated release packages. A release package is a ZIP file consisting of WordPress in its entirety, along with translation files for core, the default themes and Akismet, and any custom changes you may have. Requirements There are some requirements you have to follow to ensure your…

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  • Moderator Tags

    As a moderator, you will often find it necessary to let other mods know about the status of a video you are working with. To do this, we use a list of the special “moderators tags” to mark videos in the queue to make other mods aware of the situation. You can also add a…

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  • Working with Subtitles/Captions

    Main page for working with subtitles/captions

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  • Contributor Handbooks

    Contributor handbooks are located on make.wordpress.org/[team-name]/handbook/. Each team can opt-in to having a handbook. Setup To setup a contributor handbook, a network admin needs to do the following: Enable the Handbook plugin. Create a new Handbook page called “Handbook” with the slug of “handbook.” Go into Settings -> Permalinks and press the “Save Changes” button.…

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  • Selecting a Video to Edit

    SELECT A VIDEO: Videos that need processing or editing can be found at WPTV Videos to Edit. Videos are grouped by the WordCamp city. At the bottom of the spreadsheet select the WordCamp you want to work in and click the city. Videos can be in different stages of processing and can be in different formats. Some…

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  • Theme Tags

    Here is a list of all of the tags that a theme can use and what the theme needs to fulfill to be allowed to use the tag. You can find the list of tags using API here: https://api.wordpress.org/themes/info/1.1/?action=feature_list Subject tags (max 3 tags) Tag Requirement blog Theme designed primarily for use on blogs e-commerce…

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  • Handbook

    Welcome to the WordPress.tv Moderator Handbook This handy handbook (See what I did there?) is the best place to learn how to get involved with producing, publishing, and translating/captioning videos on WordPress.tv. Here you can learn about how the community moderator team is organized, communication channels, best practices, the video workflow process, and more. There…

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  • WordPress.org

    The guidelines in the following pages address elements regarding the WordPress.org network of sites. What you see here are the exceptions or extensions to the foundational styles shown on the previous section of this handbook.

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  • Iconography

    WordPress Icons are available to use in Storybook. They are designed and exported from this page in the WordPress Design Library Figma. Here’s more on how to use the Figma library. Dashicons are deprecated, but still available to use. Design Guidelines Icons use a 24x24px grid. Lines should be 1.5px wide, but have one edge…

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