WordPress Help

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

  • Reviewing the Guidelines – 2017

    I do this regularly, but recently I received a comment that the guidelines were still too vague. I need to stress that this is by intent. If we make guidelines like “You can only have 3 external links” then people will find ways to exploit that. However I do not think that guidelines are perfect. Which…

    Read guide

  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

    Read guide

  • Plan for WordCamp US Contributor Day

    Hello team! Tomorrow is WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or…

    Read guide

  • Welcome

    Tide is a series of automated tests run against every pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly…

    Read guide

  • New Home

    Welcome to the new website for the Tide project! Tide already has a private code repository and an issue tracker, which will be made public in the next few weeks. Subscribe to this blog for updates when it becomes public, or join us in the #tide channel on Slack. The mission of Tide is to…

    Read guide

  • Hi Polyglots, my plugin Store…

    Hi Polyglots, my pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in…

    Read guide

  • Hi Polyglots,

    , I am the theme author for (https://wordpress.org/themes/specia/) (https://wordpress.org/themes/avira/) (https://wordpress.org/themes/proficient/). We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our themes. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #en_AU – @transiword If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank…

    Read guide

  • November 30th Support Team Meeting Summary

    WordPress 4.9 WordPress 4.9.1 was released yesterday, and is a combined security and bugfix update. Addressing some of the most noteworthy bugs discovered in 4.9 at this time. There have been no new recurring 4.9 issues, but we make note of the change to the author bio field now being passed through wpautop which might…

    Read guide

  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

    Read guide

  • Hello, Polyglots!

    We are the authors of Social Login pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These…

    Read guide