WordPress Help

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

  • Optimizing script loading, part II

    After more tests and research it seems the best two options for the WordPress adminadmin (and super admin) are either minifying all scripts and loading most in the footer or concatenating and compressing them on per page basis. Minifying and loading scripts in the footer gives slightly slower performance with both cold and primed cache…

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  • Optimizing script loading

    WordPress is using more and more JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com. A lot of features use…

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  • Page Attributes

    The Page Attributes module allows you to set page parents and templates, and to change the order of your pages. This support doc explains the various page attributes and how to use them.

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  • Schedule a Page

    You can schedule pages to automatically publish at any time in the future. If you want to remove an already published page and automatically republish it at a specific time/date in the future, the directions are the same. Scheduling a Page In the Publish module to the right of the page editor, click Edit in…

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  • Page Visibility

    The Visibility area of the Publish metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. gives you the option to…

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  • Page Revisions

    The RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable…

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  • Pages Admin Screen

    To edit your website’s pages, click the Pages menu in your dashboard. It will look something like this: To edit a page, simply click its title. You can also hover over the title and then click Edit. Filtering Pages You can filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a…

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  • Edit Page Screen

    The Page Screen is where you create new pages or edit existing pages. The default page screen (Pages -> Add New) will look similar to the following image: [ Need Screenshot ] You will notice in the screenshot that the title of the screen is Add New Page. If you were editing a previous page,…

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  • Schedule a Post

    You can schedule blog posts to automatically publish themselves at any time in the future by following the instructions in this support doc.

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  • Post Revisions

    The RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable…

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