WordPress Help

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

  • iOS app 1P and 2FA, iPhone 6+

    Exercising 1P and 2FA support on an iPhone 6+ with iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. app version 5.0.0.2015040175eecb2. Clean run.   #1p, #2fa, #app, #apps, #ios, #mobileLogin to Reply

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  • Reminder: Term splitting in 4.2

    Here’s a quick reminder to 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…

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  • Hi there’s a contributor who basically filling…

    Hi, there’s a “contributor” who basically filling id_ID with machine-translated stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings.. I have to reject 95% submissions from his/her. Is it okay if I we blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup…

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  • The utf8mb4 Upgrade

    In WordPress 4.2, we’re upgrading tables to utf8mb4, when we can. Your site will only upgrade when the following conditions are met: You’re currently using the utf8 character set. Your MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com…

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  • Release leads for WordPress 4.3 and 4.4

    Since WordPress 3.5, we’ve had a rotating release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.. Because of the ever-present demands of the current release’s development cycle, we’ve found it tough to make these appointments well in advance. We’ve always wanted to give leads opportunity to prepare, so they can hit the ground…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda, April 1, 2015

    Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. 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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  • Working with Subtitles/Captions

    Main page for working with subtitles/captions

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  • Contributor Handbooks

    Contributor handbooks are located on make.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//[team-name]/handbook/. Each team can opt-in to having a handbook. Setup…

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  • Validation reminder for locales behind one minor/major version

    WordPress 4.2 is a couple of weeks away and it would be nice to have the 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/ that are close…

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  • This Week in 4.2: March 30 – April 5

    This is the jump-start post for the eleventh week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. Posted just a little bit late this week, sorry folks. We entered the Beta 3 stage of development last week. We need to wrap up any tickets with string changes and transition to BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is…

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