WordPress Help

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

  • Mentor Tools

    During Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ at WCUSWCUS WordCamp…

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  • Winter Holiday Coverage

    With the winter holidays upon us, most full-time community team folks will be taking some time off. For the last two weeks of the year (19–31 December), we’ll have limited coverage to help with most things that come up. Payments will not be made between 24 Dec 2016 and 4 Jan 2017. If you have…

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  • December 15th Support Team Meeting Summary

    Announcements Please take the official WordPress 2016 Survey. Please continue to offer constructive feedback on the new plugin directory. Please consider sharing some constructive feedback on 4.7’s development process. Please consider sharing some constructive feedback on the proposed WordPress.org homepage redesign. Please make sure that you’re avoiding overlaps with the awesome WordPress.org Also Viewing extension.…

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  • Designate new local manager to…

    Designate new local manager to edit Urdu RosettaRosetta The code name of the theme for the local WordPress sites (eg. bg.wordpress.org is a “Rosetta” site). All locale specific WordPress sites are referred to as “Rosetta sites.” The name was inspired from the ancient Rosetta Stone, which contained more or less the same text in three different…

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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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  • Agenda for December 15th Support Meeting

    General Announcements WordPress 4.7 Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items to discuss please add them in the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be in #forums on 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/.…

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  • Plugin directory chat 2016-12-14

    We’ll have our weekly chat in #meta at . Main topics will be progress over the last week; and remaining tickets on the 3.0 Milestone. #plugin-directory #meta Login to Reply

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chat on December 14th

    Hello Polyglots, Here’s the agenda for the chat today (please comment with items you’d like to be added in the comments below or bring them to the Open discussion) LocaleLocale 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.…

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  • Hello Polyglots!

    I am the plugin author for WP-PostRatings (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/). Please add the following WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ users as…

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  • Multisite Office Hours Recap (December 13, 2016)

    Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site office hours are held every Tuesday at 17:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be .…

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