WordPress Help

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

  • Fixing an issue

    The Documentation issue tracker is the central place for contributing to WordPress documentation. No actual documentation is hosted in this repository. Its purpose is to track all the issues for any part of WordPress documentation. We don’t have Pull Requests there because no actual documentation is hosted in the repository, so we can’t use some…

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  • How to start using WordPress Playground

    Resources WordPress in one click WordPress Playground Docs Learning outcomes Transcript Introduction Hi, I’m Adam and I’m going to show you how to use WordPress Playground. When you go to playground.wordpress.net, you are going to get an entire WordPress site running entirely in your browser. Use it to your advantage to try plugins, themes, build…

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  • Use the Create Block Theme plugin for exports, and theme variations

    Learn how to use the Create Block Theme plugin to save, export, and install custom WordPress themes.

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  • Introduction to phpMyAdmin

    This lesson explores your WordPress database, how it stores data, and how to safely access it.

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  • Understand where your files live

    This lesson covers accessing your WordPress files, understanding the file structure, and using the wp-config.php file.

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  • Grid block

    Go back to the list of Blocks Grid block is one of the container blocks that can be used to organize multiple blocks and adjust the height, width, and position of all blocks inside the container. As a container block, it’s possible to transform a Grid block into a Group, Row or Stack block without changing…

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  • Subversion Access

    WordPress.org uses Subversion (SVN) for version control, in addition to providing each hosted theme and plugin with a repository that the author can commit to, we also use it for the WordPress software and the WordPress.org website as well. Setting up a SVN Password SVN passwords separate your commit access from your main WordPress.org account…

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  • Profile Badges

    On your personal WordPress.org profile, badges are added based on your contributions to the WordPress project. Learn more about Profile Badges. Make Accessibility Contributor Profile Badge Criteria A contributor to the Make Accessible Team can be recognized for their contribution/contributions to the Accessibility Contributor Badge. Contributions can include: Facilitating a bug-scrub session; Commit, Comment on,…

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  • What is WordPress Multisite?

    Extra resources Transcript Introduction In this lesson, we will explore the world of WordPress Multisite. A powerful feature that allows you to manage multiple WordPress sites from a single installation. If you’ve ever wanted to run several sites without juggling multiple logins, this is the solution for you. The lesson outcomes are understand what Multisite…

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  • Managing a WordPress Multisite network

    Managing a WordPress Multisite network is slightly different from managing a single-site WordPress install. In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to manage a WordPress multisite network. You will learn about the Network Admin dashboard, and the options available in the Network Settings page, as well as different ways to create and manage sub-sites…

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