WordPress Help

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

  • Reviewer Handbook

    Sneaking this in just before 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. US, if you’ve seen the redesign of this make site, then you…

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  • Customizer Improvements in 4.7

    WordPress 4.7 has been the most active release on record for the customize component, with four major feature projects merging and shipping with 4.7 and over 90 tickets closed as fixed. This post summarizes the highlights of the user and developer-facing changes. 4.7 CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes.…

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  • Starter content for themes in 4.7

    One of the hardest things for people setting up sites with WordPress for the first time is understanding what themes are and how a given theme can work for you, especially when there’s no content there to visualize. There are also significant gaps between local theme previews, screenshots, and .org previews. Even when there are…

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  • Welcome

    The Design Team provides design for the WordPress project. Want to get involved? See the handbook and optionally drop into #design to chat. Most active design work happens in the block editor project, consider dropping into Needs design or Needs design feedback. Figma Access There’s a WordPress Component Library in Figma. Duplicate to edit, direct…

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  • Week in Core, November 23 – 29, 2016

    Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39341-39379]. Here are the highlights: 39 commits 30 contributors 81 tickets created 3 tickets reopened 31 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based…

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  • Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 6.8

    The WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 6.8 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product;…

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  • Plugin directory chat 2016-11-30

    We’ll have our weekly chat in #meta at . On the agenda: Feedback from the soft launch. Blockers for launch. #plugin-directory #meta Login to Reply

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  • Hello Polyglots, I would like…

    Hello Polyglots, I would like to volunteer to be one of the PTEs of 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…

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  • Please could the following user…

    Please could the following user be added as a translation editorTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles can add new users with the “Project Translation Editor” role that can approve translations for specific projects. There are two different Translation Editor roles: General Translation…

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  • Community Team Chat rescheduled for next Thursday!

    Since so many of the Community Team will be either on the road or in the air this Thursday, we’ve decided to move our monthly meeting to next week at the same time (19:00 UTC in #community-team in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where…

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