WordPress Help

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

  • Slack: Introducing WordPress Translate bot

    If you haven’t heard of 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/ yet you should go ahead and join the WordPress team on Slack and then look for the #Polyglots channel. The #Polyglots channel on Slack is where we have our weekly chats…

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  • Multisite Office Hours Recap (February 24, 2015)

    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 21:00UTC in #core-multisite and are followed by a casual…

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  • Foundations

    The following pages include all the base elements to the WordPress brand. Identity, Colors, and Typography. These should always be the main point of reference for anything related to WordPress.

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  • Colors

    Colors are one of the key aspects when it comes to brand recognition. Making sure we use the right hues (colors) is essential to that effect. As part of a redesign of 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…

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  • Identity

    Logotype Shortly after the WordPress project was born, Matt Mullenweg designed the original logo; it was simply the word “WordPress” set in the Adobe Dante typeface. The WordPress logotype as we know it today was created in early 2005 by Jason Santa Maria. He used two Emigre typefaces: Mrs Eaves Small Caps for the “WordPress” text,…

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  • Mac Screen Capture with QuickTime

    The built-in QuickTime Player application can be used to capture a computer screen for a 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. presenter that is…

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  • Polyglots Team Badges

    Dear Polyglots, We’ve discussed Polyglots badges for a while now during weekly chats. As we want to move things forward, we need to make some decisions. Overview The current suggestion is that Translation Contributors (translators) and Translation EditorsTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles…

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  • Thought it might be fitting to post this…

    Thought it might be fitting to post this as today marks five years since @ocean90‘s first patch to WordPress. As has been obvious to some of you, I have stepped back from i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I – eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services…

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  • Theme Directory Launch Checklist

    Tomorrow we’re going live with the new Directory! We’ll start going through the checklist . Disable uploads on bbpressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org themes. (@Otto42) Disable themes.tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. sync…

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  • Agenda for February 24, 2015

    Slack Log New people in Training welcome Assign new lesson plans Review lesson plans in progress Abandoned Plans Spreadsheet WP Lancaster (last time!) Login to Reply

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