WordPress Help

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

  • Handbooks Chat: 27th Feb

    Present: @blobaugh, @caseydriscoll, @hanni, @NikV @philiparthurmoore,and @sams. 1.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…

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  • Welcome

    Welcome to the official home of the WordPress Documentation Team. This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the handbooks and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project. Want to get involved? Start here to find out more about what we do and how to contribute: Onboarding to Documentation Team: An…

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  • Codex

    The Codex is a community-created repository for WordPress documentation. Anyone can edit any of the information on the Codex, and only a 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…

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  • Handbooks

    What are the handbooks? The handbooks are individual guides that teach people to work on specific aspects of WordPress. There are two kinds of handbooks that the Docs team works on: contributor handbooks that help people to get involved with the project developer handbooks to teach developers how to work with and extend WordPress Currently,…

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  • [OLD] Inline documentation

    Note: This project was completed. Thank you for your contribution. WordPress’ current inline documentation efforts really kicked off starting in the 3.7 release cycle, and gained momentum as the hook docs initiative progressed. The inline documentation, or “inline docs” initiative is a hybrid project, reporting to the CoreCore Core is the set of software required…

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  • Accessibility Team Update: February 26, 2014

    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/ Activities We discussed activities…

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  • Devhub

    Devhub is the project name for developer.wordpress.org, which was deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it’s available to visitors. and is still under active development. A full project specification is available on the Make/Meta blog. Devhub is a new home for developer documentation on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The…

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  • Hi sorry if this is off topic but…

    Hi, sorry if this is off topic, but I haven’t managed to get replies elsewhere… Do you know if Stefano Aglietti is still the validator for this project?: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/it/default?page=1 How can I contact him? I’d like to complete the translation, but I’ve noticed that there are stringsString A string is a translatable part of the…

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  • Releasing an Update

    Migrated.

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  • SVN Basics

    Migrated.

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