WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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FOA dear Ze Congrats for the new release…
FOA dear Ze, Congrats for the new release. I just wanted to remind you of the latest situation we had talk about: I am now able to go to dashboard on all 3 pages, and am able to edit pages in HAZ page and AZ_TR but not in AZ ! Strange. Hovering on the edit…
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Team rep votes are in 27 people voted…
Team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. votes are in! 27 people voted, with this breakdown of involvement levels: 14 – I am an active member of the…
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Multi Event Sponsorship: Week 2
Last weeks call was a very productive one as we started analysis of the data provided from Andrea on all the WordCamps of 2012. Quick hits from the initial high level analysis: Need to determine the demarcation point between small and large WordCamps Initial thoughts on geographic regions may not have been detailed enough (…
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How do I get started?
This question comes up a lot, and my usual reply is “What do you want to do?” Here’s a Getting Started primer. It’s very much a work in progress, and I’m very open to suggestions 🙂
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Getting Started With Support
Getting started in Support is a comfort level thing. You help where you’re most comfortable and because of that, there’s no ‘one size fits all’ reply to the simple question of “How do I get started?” We can, however, give you some general pointers. Follow this blog! We talk about stuff here, and try to…
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The release cycle for WordPress 3.6 isn’t going…
The release cycle for WordPress 3.6 isn’t going to start until January, but we can of course start to drop in some early things before then. (This worked out nicely before the start of 3.5.) With that in mind, I have added jQuery 1.9 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a…
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WordPress Codex Sprint Round-up
The first WordPress codexWordPress Codex Living online manual to WordPress.org https://codex.wordpress.org/ sprint was a success! A bunch of us got together in the #wordpress-sfd chatroom and ploughed through the majority of the docs. You can see how successful we were by checking out our to-do list. There are a few things left on the list…
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MediaWiki formatting
The styles for the WordPress CodexWordPress Codex Living online manual to WordPress.org https://codex.wordpress.org/ are different from other wikis. For specifics, see Codex:Styles. The following editing styles and markup cover the specific style of the Codex and includes recommendations and structure formats from MediaWiki’s Guide: Editing Overview. For more information on styling these pages, see: Guide…
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Writing tips
The WordPress Codex is written in second person familiar in English. This removes the “I” from the instructions and tutorials and puts “you” in the driver’s seat. Here’s two paragraphs to compare the difference: I needed to display my categories in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes…