WordPress Help

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

  • Forum moderators

    Given that many of us here double as forum moderators for our own languages, I would like to encourage all to keep informed about what is going on over at https://make.wordpress.org/support. Please feel free to contribute your own opinion, which is not only welcome, but actually needed. One of the first examples of what you…

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  • Looking for a lead

    The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor Handbook is live here, and has a lot of great content from a number of contributors already: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/ What we’re looking for is someone to “own” the CCH and be responsible for: Expanding and editing it,…

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  • From Bluehost

    Bryan Petty posted this to the wp-forums list: Hi, I just thought it would be helpful to inform the forum mods here that Bluehost is working on a large push for customers to get their WP sites upgraded to the latest version. We have a list of about 150k customers with WP installations that are…

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  • WordPress org username of the administrator bisag Language…

    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/ username of the administrator: bisag Language code: gu Language name, both the English and…

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  • Codex work

    We should probably get a conversation going not only about needed Codex work but *how* to approach a better structure and how to get the work done. I’m leaning towards a re-org and maybe a bit of a division between users docs and programmer notes. A good example of this the Pages page. It starts…

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  • Copy Pasta vs personal responses

    Copy/Pasta vs personal responses. I was mulling over this on the flight home (because I’m a big old nerd) and it fell into the realm of how people get so frustrated when we just paste a link. Now. I know that we often paste links because it really is the right answer, and the users…

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  • Negative Tab Indexing

    Using a tabindex of -1 is (in my books) a fairly old trick to try and drop elements out of an existing tabindex order. But I suspect it’s a trick may have outlived its usefulness and may behave inconsistently across different user agents.What are your thoughts/experiences? Do we have more consistent best practice techniques that…

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  • A collection of tickets for 3.5 that need…

    A collection of tickets for 3.5 that need contributors! Retina and UIUI User interface #21019, Retina everything #16461, CSS3 gradients for buttons and other graphical elements #21388, retina theme screenshots #21389, retina custom headers Media #21390, media catch all ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #21391, converting the…

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  • Accessibility tickets with UI implications

    There are a number of recent tickets about accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)…

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  • Welcome screen design v2

    I’d like to get the ball rolling on the new welcome screen redesign for 3.5. I started playing around with a few ideas and I’d love to hear your thoughts: My hope for this screen is that it will serve as a proper “home” that users can come back to again and again to find…

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