WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Become a Reviewer
What is a theme reviewer? A theme reviewer is a volunteer who helps theme authors add their theme to the official theme directory. A reviewer installs and tests the theme, reviews the code and checks for security issues. The reviewer also confirms that the theme is compatible with GPL, the license that is used by…
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Get involved
Are you looking to join the Themes Team? Please see the About page to learn more about the team, what the team does, how to reach the team, and more. Are you interested in seeing how you can run a contribution session related to themes? Great, you’ve come to the right place! In this section…
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Theme Check Plugin
Information on this page may be out of date. The following are all the checks that the Theme Check plugin performs. Themes have to pass the Theme Check plugin without errors before they can be included in the theme directory. You can get the plugin from the plugin directory or you can get the developer…
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Resources
Keyboard navigation Keyboard navigation support in the theme accessibility-ready guidelines Keyboard navigation testing in the Accessibility Team’s documentation site Keyboard accessibility by WebAIM Reviewing A Guide to Reviewing Themes for the WordPress Theme Repository by Chip Bennett Preliminary Theme Review Process by Emil Uzelac Prefix all the things by Justin Tadlock Most Common Admin Review Issues…
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Recommended
Comments Themes are recommended to support comments, including nested comments and comment navigation.If comments are not supported, the team recommends that this is documented as a limitation, in the theme readme file. Theme support The following theme support is recommended for classic themes add_theme_support( “custom-header”, $args ) add_theme_support( “custom-background”, $args ) add_theme_support( “custom-logo”, $args )…
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Required
A theme must meet all of the following requirements to be included in the WordPress.org Theme Directory. Themes that have 3 or more distinct issues may be closed as not-approved. However, theme authors may resubmit the theme once they’ve corrected the issues. 1. Licensing & copyright Themes must be compatible with the GNU General Public…
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Review Process
Theme Review Process Every theme that is uploaded for inclusion in the WordPress.org theme directory goes through this process: A theme gets uploaded. A theme goes to the new theme queue. A theme gets allocated a theme reviewer. The reviewer does a review by checking the required items and noting any recommendations. Once the review…
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Handbook
Welcome to the WordPress.org Training Team’s handbook! We hope you’ll find the information here helpful. Please check out the information here and visit us in the #training channel in Slack.
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Appendix
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Reporting and tagging posts
Any post can be reported to the moderators using the Report button in the sidebar. (Note that the “sidebar” on narrow screens is located below the page’s main content.) When to report a post A post should be reported when in your opinion a forum moderator needs to take action on a post or thread.…