WordPress Help

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

  • wordpress 3.8 beta 1 is out

    wordpress 3.8 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; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1…

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  • WordPress for iOS 3.8.4 Released!

    Hey everyone, great news, we just released WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 3.8.4. The fix was largely oriented around stability and bug fixes, for more details you can view the release post here. We’re super excited that this version is out and that 3.8.5 is currently undergoing testing in…

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  • User Testing the Better Widgets 0.1 Plugin

    Let’s keep going with the work on widgets! I’ve tested the Better Widgets 0.1 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…

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  • bbpress in french

    Hello, I am not sure if this is the best place to discuss this. I have also written here https://fr.wordpress.org/contact/, following this recommendation : I would like to be a validator for… For a project that includes a forum, I have completed the french translation for bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of…

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  • Targeting the new dashboard design in a post-MP6 world

    There’s been a lot of chatter about how to handle the detection of the new dashboard design in a 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…

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  • Dev Chat Summary for Nov 18, 2013

    Chat log. Agenda iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. Summary Android Summary Handbook Next This Week iOS Summary 3.8.4 was finally submitted to Apple for review, it was stuck in QA for quite some time. Meanwhile work has progressed towards the next bug fix update, 3.8.5. We’ll try to wrap it up…

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  • Theme Review Incentive: November 2013 Winners!

    Congratulations to @rohitink, @ZGani, and @alex27; you three have completed the most new Theme approvals for October through mid-November! Please post your Featured Theme selections in the comments, with a link to the Theme’s WPORG Theme Directory listing. The Themes that will be cycled out are: Destro, Iconic One, and StrapVert. A total of 84 new…

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  • Admin Help: 18 November, 2013

    @ninnypants has been working on the js portion of the Admin Help plugin the basic framework for the javascript is here: https://github.com/ninnypants/WordPress-Admin-Help/blob/core_js/js/adminhelp-plugins.js This will be the format for calling in the content to display with the tooltips. The docs themselves will go into static php files so we can use normal php i18n functions. As…

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  • Is the Theme Directory “Blog” Focused?

    Some recent discussions in the community have indicated that the Theme directory is too “blog” focused, and that the Guidelines actively discourage non-blogging Themes from being submitted.  There are some things that are true, some things that are untrue, and some things that are simply outside of the control of the Theme Review Team, in…

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  • * bbPress `dev` projects bbpress dev is using…

    bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org `dev` (/projects/bbpress/dev/) is using bbPress 2.3 BuddyPress `1.8` (/projects/bbpress/1.8/) does not exist BuddyPress `1.9` (/projects/bbpress/1.9/) does not exist (now in betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under…

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