WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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What We Do
WordPress is translated into many languages which are translated by volunteer community members. The Polyglots Team is responsible for both translating and managing this process. Responsibilities The WordPress project is large in scale. As of June 2020, over half (55.6%) of all sites running WordPress are running them in a language other than US English.…
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Codex
The Codex is a community-created repository for WordPress documentation. Anyone can edit any of the information on the Codex, and only a WordPress.org user account is required to create a page. At this moment in time, the Codex is not actively maintained and pages are migrated to wp-helphub.com. More information about the migration is here.…
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Handbooks
What are the handbooks? The handbooks are individual guides that teach people to work on specific aspects of WordPress. There are two kinds of handbooks that the Docs team works on: contributor handbooks that help people to get involved with the project developer handbooks to teach developers how to work with and extend WordPress Currently,…
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[OLD] Inline documentation
Note: This project was completed. Thank you for your contribution. WordPress’ current inline documentation efforts really kicked off starting in the 3.7 release cycle, and gained momentum as the hook docs initiative progressed. The inline documentation, or “inline docs” initiative is a hybrid project, reporting to the Core, Documentation, and Developer Hub teams. What is…
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Devhub
Devhub is the project name for developer.wordpress.org, which was deployed and is still under active development. A full project specification is available on the Make/Meta blog. Devhub is a new home for developer documentation on WordPress.org. It comprises: an auto-generated code reference targeted handbooks for developers The project requires the following types of contributors: PHP…
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New contributor at a Contributor Day
Weekly Office Hours: Mondays 15:00 UTC Where: The #docs channel on Slack This guide is a quick starting point for first-time contributors for the Documentation Team. If you are on a Contributor Day at a local WordCamp, this should get you pointed in the right direction. If you feel there is any aspect left out of…
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Getting Started at a Contributor Day
This guide is intended to help you get started contributing to the support team at a contributor day. Below is an outline of what the Support team does, and how to quickly get started contributing to WordPress support. If you need any help, talk to your contributor day organizer, or ask your question in #forums on Slack. Regular Meeting…
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Getting Started at a Contributor Day
This guide is intended to help you get started contributing to the mobile team at a contributor day. Below is an outline of what the mobile team does and how to quickly get started. If you need any help, talk to your contributor day organizer, or ask your question in the #mobile channel on Slack.…
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Release Cycles
For each release in the iOS and Android app projects, we follow roughly the same basic plan to ensure stable releases that are sufficiently tested. Scoping A few days (at most) to finalize what should be worked on, who’s working on what, and setting a target date. Development Development begins, nightly betas are issued. A…
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Connecting to WordPress.com
Both Android and iOS use the WordPress.com API to connect with your WordPress.com username and manage your hosted sites. WordPress.com uses OAuth2 and requires a shared secret for application installs to be able to pair and authenticate. In order to connect to a WordPress.com account you will need to register for an account over at…