WordPress Help

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

  • Hello world!

    Welcome to make.wordpress.org/support. This is the new blog for the Support contributor team, made up of support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. moderaters and…

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  • Here’s round 2 of the WordPress as…

    Here’s round 2 of the “WordPress as a CMS” user test. You can view round one here. As much as I love spending 2+ hours making notes on each user test video, I’m going to try a different approach with this one. As you watch this one, please make a note in the comments if…

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  • Static front-page improvements

    We’re in the middle of testing some users through a few “WordPress as a CMS” scenarios. One of the items that really stands out as needing some attention is the static front pageStatic Front Page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page” which is used to show…

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  • For those of you building websites with WordPress…

    For those of you building websites with WordPress, I’d love to learn about how you’d approach a simple 10 page static site design (start to finish). The more details you can provide, the better (what plugins you add, what settings you change, and in what order you typically do everything). Feel free to pingPing The…

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  • Who is the validator to the Ukrainian language

    Who is the validatorValidator See translation editor. to the Ukrainian language? Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • I asked Otto to get me a DB…

    I asked Otto to get me a DB dump of the WP.org Support ForumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. titles for the past 60 days…

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  • As much as I like staying on task…

    As much as I like staying on task, and getting stuff done, sometimes I just need a creative break. We’ve been doing a bunch of planning this week to get ready for 3.5 (which is looking awesome). But, I decided to set aside some time this afternoon to fiddle with a feature of my choosing…

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  • Let’s talk about tagging posts here on the…

    Let’s talk about tagging posts here on the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog.…

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  • Canonical redirects and IIS

    Canonical redirects, which were disabled on IIS several releases ago, have ben reënabled for IIS. I’d like any issues with IIS redirects to get worked out in this cycle, and would appreciate thorough testing by everyone with access to various IIS environments. File new tickets for any issues you encounter.

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  • Here’s the start of another discovery cycle #2…

    Here’s the start of another discovery cycle (#2). This one is focused around WordPress as a CMS (using it to build a website vs. for a blog). I’ll need to make some edits to this script before I run any other users through it. You can download the video and follow along if you’d like…

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