WordPress Help

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

  • Getting Started with Distributed Hosting Tests

    The idea behind the distributed hosting tests is to run WordPress’ automated test suite across a variety of hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. environments, to help verify that changes in WordPress don’t unintentionally…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: August 23rd (4.9 week 4)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 23rd (agenda, Slack archive). Review 4.9-early tickets Items in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. all seem to need owners, especially since they were all tagged 4.8-early as well Should also include work on CodeMirror which needs…

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  • X-post: The Developer’s Guide to Supporting Your Themes – Video and Slides

    X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/support: Comment on The Developer’s Guide to Supporting Your Themes – Video and Slides Login to Reply

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  • Summary for HelpHub Bug Scrub 17 August 2017

    SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ transcript available here. Last week’s focus was on writing guides to help with onboarding new contributors and tracking contributors pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added…

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  • The Developer’s Guide to Supporting Your Themes – Video and Slides

    Thank you to everyone who joined me yesterday for a remote workshop, in which I shared tips for supporting WordPress themes. Participants attended from around the world, and folks asked some great questions afterwards. The presentation was recorded, and the video, slides, and notes are below. This session was the first in a planned series…

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  • We have some strings which…

    We have some strings which have been translated to German, Belgium, Hungarian and French for our plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/ Could you help us and approve these stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings.? #de_DE (@Papin) #fr_FR #hu_HU #nl_BE (@petya) #cs_CZ Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Accessibility work at WordCamp Brighton

    Date: August 18 – 20, 2017 Website: 2017.brighton.wordcamp.org Twitter: #WCBTN, #WordCampBTN and @WordCampBTN Talks about AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology…

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  • 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…

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  • O2 Plugin Request: The Final Word

    For a little while on the Community Team we have been discussing how useful it would be to have a ‘top comment’ feature on O2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org that would allow us to sum up a thread…

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  • Hello Polyglots!

    Please add the following WordPress.org user as translation editor to https://wordpress.org/plugins/asgaros-forum/ for their respective locales: Persian #fa_IR @rahmatmajidi (@tobifjellner) Thank you! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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