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This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the handbooks and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.
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Don’t use to refer to a device, computer, or system that isn’t responding. Instead, use stop responding to describe a program or application which encounters a problem, isn’t responding, and cannot close itself.
Use close to describe the action a program takes to close itself when it has encountered a problem and can’t continue.
Use storage device instead of disk or drive to refer generally to external drives such as hard drives, solid-state drives, flash storage, and other types of storage hardware.
Use to refer to the drive on a computer used for storage purposes.
Use storage device instead of disk or drive to refer generally to external drives such as hard drives, solid-state drives, flash storage, and other types of storage hardware.
Don’t use running head instead of headerHeaderThe header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. in the context of content publishing, word-processing, and websites.
It’s OK to use header as a shortened term for file header in developer documentation and for a technical audience.
Don’t use header as an abbreviated term for header file at the beginning of the file which refers to the data libraries, or definitions of variables and data types used by a program.
When the environment is presumably a touch device, use hold and hold the pointer over in a desktop environment, when referring to the action of the user holding or hovering the pointer over a UIUIUI 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. element, but not clicking the element.
Initialism for Hypertext Markup Language. Use uppercase.
Don’t use a filename extension to refer to a type of file. For example, use HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. file file rather than .html file.
For more information about spelling out abbreviations, see Abbreviations.
It’s OK to use hyperlink instead of link to describe text, graphic, button, or another element that users can select to go to another document, another place within the same document, or to a webpage.
