Welcome to the official home of the WordPress Documentation Team.
This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the handbooks and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.
Want to get involved?
Start here to find out more about what we do and how to contribute:
Documentation Issue Tracker on GitHub: Submit any Documentation Team-related issues on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/
Weekly meetings
Join our discussions of documentation issues here on the blog and on Slack.
There are many ways in which it is possible to contribute to Documentation team. To help you decide where to start looking, we’ll present here possibilities based on your skillset.
End user is someone who uses WordPress mainly to create content (publish posts and pages) and modify the way website looks and behaves through admin screens, Dashboard, using themes, plugins and site options.
Development of HelpHub is maintained through GitHub repository. You can go through the existing issues and offer your opinions and suggestions, or you can create new issues for anything you think needs fixing on staging or production sites.
For contributing to HelpHub design you should contact Mark Uraine (@mapk). PingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@mapk in SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or send him Direct Message and you’ll get further directions and all the help to get started.
As a developer you can help in several Documentation team projects. This is also a great opportunity for you to learn and grow as a developer. Regardless of the level of your experience and understanding of WordPress structure and functionality, you’ll find a lot of interesting things to do with Documentation team.
For contributing to HelpHub contact either Milana Cap (@milana_cap) or Marius L. Jensen (@clorith).
Theme and plugin development handbooks are shared effort between Documentation, Theme Review and Plugins Review teams. To help with its content contact either Jon Ang (@kenshino) or Drew Jaynes (@drewapicture).
Even though there’s still no code reference for JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScript 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 huge effort has been put in writing inline documentation for it. There are just a few people working on this and we’re always looking for new contributors to help them out.
For getting involved with Javascript inline documentation contact Anton Timmermans (@atimmer). Dedicated channel for inline documentation is #core-docs.
Documentation for GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ is split into documentation for developers and end users (content creators). End user documentation is led by Femy Praseeth @femkreations and developer documentation is (vacant for now) in #docs channels. Check out the Documentation Issues Tracker > Good First Issues on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ for tasks to get started.