WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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[OLD] Docs projects
See the top page of this handbook or GitHub repositories for ongoing projects. This page archives completed projects. Past Projects: Common APIs Handbook Common APIs Handbook serves as a clearinghouse for documentation on all APIs present within the WordPress software as well as APIs available from the WordPress.org ecosystem. For detail steps, refer https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/documentation-team-handbook/common-apis-handbook/ HelpHub block…
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Getting Started at a Contributor Day
This guide is intended to help you get started contributing to the Polyglots team at a Contributor Day. Below is an outline of what the Polyglots team does and how to quickly get started translating WordPress and related projects. If you need any help, talk to your contributor day organizer, or ask in the #polyglots…
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FAQ
Someone’s spamming! What do I do? On Slack, ask someone in #forums to look. A Slack account is required. On the forums, use the ‘Report’ option for the thread/topic. Why aren’t my posts showing up? They may have gotten caught in the spam queue, or may have been flagged. In most cases, just being patient is…
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Other Support Locations
In addition to the “child pages” of this page, see also https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/contributing-to-the-wordpress-forums/support-forums-in-your-language/
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Contributing to the WordPress Forums
Everyone who contributes to the WordPress Support Forums is a volunteer. Some people are encouraged to do so by their companies, and their time is donated to help. Other people jump in to answer questions in their off hours or downtime. Some people post on the trains while commuting, others do it in their lunch…
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Accessibility
Theme developers may request an optional accessibility review as part of the theme review process or later for an existing theme. Submitted themes (or theme updates) that pass a manual review are approved to use the accessibility-ready tag and show up in the theme directory as accessibility-ready. How to be “Accessibility Ready” Adding the accessibility-ready…
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Handbook
The review Every theme that is uploaded for inclusion in the WordPress.org repo goes through a process. See review process. Required There are certain checks that all themes need to pass before they can be put on the WordPress.org theme repository. You can find all the required items here. New reviewers Become a Reviewer