WordPress Help

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

  • Get involved

    Members of the Make WordPress 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 (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team are volunteers…

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  • Accessibility standards and best practices

    What are the best practices for an accessible WordPress website, theme or 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…

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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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  • Dev Chat Summary: August 16th (4.9 week 3)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 16th (agenda, Slack archive). Feedback on 4.9 goals @johnbillion: as part of ongoing Security focus, planning on several user account security related changes, for example bringing some of the Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: August 16, 2017

    Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on (Slack archive). Distributed Testing An initial version of this is live on make/hosting! @danielbachhuber notes that we should try to get a couple more hosts on-boarded before promotion. If you work at a host and are interested in getting the WordPress automated test suite running, please…

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  • Hosting

    The Hosting team maintains distributed testing software that tests pre-release versions of WordPress on hosting systems, and infrastructure-focused documentation.

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  • Hi team,

    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 the WordPress.org Plugin…

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  • Hello, I would love to…

    Hello, I would love to add the following two localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/: LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a…

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  • Free WP-CLI stickers for your event!

    So good. pic.twitter.com/s1K5PQRAHK — Daniel Bachhuber (@danielbachhuber) June 9, 2017 Want to share your love of WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ with your community? Starting today, you can fill out this form to request stickers…

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  • WordCamp Bologna 2018 – Developer Focus

    Today I had my first mentorship check-in with Enea @overclokk, lead organiser of 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. Bologna 2018. As discussed…

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