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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tacitonic/) [Atharva Dhekne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tacitonic/)
6:45 pm _on_ March 7, 2021     
Tags: Atharva Dhekne, [documentation ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/documentation/),
Google, Google Developers, Google Season of Docs, Google Season of Docs 2020, GSoD,
GSoD 2020, Style Guide, tacitonic, [WordPress ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/wordpress/),
WordPress Documentation Style Guide   

# 󠀁[WordPress Documentation Style Guide – Google Season of Docs 2020 Project Report](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2021/03/07/wordpress-documentation-style-guide-google-season-of-docs-2020-project-report-tacitonic/)󠁿

[⌊Google Season of Docs logo, WordPress logo⌉⌊Google Season of Docs logo, WordPress
logo⌉[

Google established the [Season of Docs](https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs)
program to improve documentation for open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes 
software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be 
redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model,
see GPL. projects while also enabling technical writers to acquire valuable experience
with open source organizations and technical writing. My proposal for [A Full and Renewed Set of Documentation Style Guide](https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/2020/participants/project-wordpress-tacitonic)
was accepted by WordPress, which was a participating organization in Google Season
of Docs 2020.

Quick links:

 * [WordPress Documentation Style Guide](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/)
 * [GitHub project repository – WordPress Documentation Style Guide](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide)
 * [Google Season of Docs original project proposal for tacitonic (Atharva Dhekne) – Google Developers](https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/2020/participants/project-wordpress-tacitonic)

The reason I chose this project in particular, was that this was one of the only
projects in Google Season of Docs 2020 where there was a chance to implement something
totally new. An extensive style guide that would govern all WordPress documentation
was a testing task that I loved to take on. Additionally, out of all the projects
listed on Season of Docs 2020, WordPress had the most suitable project for me in
terms of technical proficiency and familiarity with the platform. From the technical
aspect, I had been developing websites on WordPress for over 4 years at that time.

I had recently completed a research fellowship with a non-profit organization in
open source development and administration, so I was already accustomed to an open
source environment. Furthermore, the direct impact of my efforts working with WordPress
Documentation were unlike any other organization. Having a direct influence in impacting
millions of developers and users is what motivated me to work with WordPress for
GSoD 2020.

## Project description

### Synopsis

WordPress is a global non-profit software organization that is dedicated to serving
the global community with software that emphasizes accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility(
commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services,
or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures
both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility
with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), performance, security, and ease of use. WordPress’
cause strives to democratize publishing and open source software on the web. In 
our digital age, a website is quite literally the online facade of an organization
or individual; and WordPress serves an immense task of efficiently serving hundreds
of millions of users – attributed to the 40% of the internet it runs – with their
software. To further efficiently serve these users, documentation proves to be essential
and is used by most developers, administrators, and end-users. Therefore, documentation
can be established as a principal factor of the WordPress ecosystem. At the time,
WordPress documentation didn’t include a universal and unified set of rules and 
style guidelines for publishing. The motive of this project was to create a full
and renewed set of documentation style guidelines, universally applicable for WordPress
documentation. The project idea involved consolidating all aspects of design and
style guidelines like semantics, syntactics, grammar guidelines, punctuation, development-
specific rules, design attributes and formatting specifics. It also incorporated
language conventions like voice, tone, tense, all parts of speech, as well as naming
conventions. The tools, languages and platforms used were WordPress, GitHubGitHub
GitHub 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 by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/),
Markdown, PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-
used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for
web development and can be embedded into HTML. [https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php),
MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured
collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. [https://www.mysql.com](https://www.mysql.com/),
HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language
that is used in the development of web pages and websites./CSSCSS CSS is an acronym
for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of
a site., and 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](https://www.javascript.com/).

## Project plan

### State of WordPress Documentation Style Guides

The WordPress Documentation Team has been implementing an undeclared but unanimous
methodology of publishing guidelines. But once in a while, some elements are presupposed
and the process becomes speculative. There didn’t exist any fixed standard and criterion
for the purpose of writing and publishing articles for WordPress. The documentation
team had written project specific style guidelines, but none that were universally
applicable. Most style guidelines that existed were not consolidated in one handbook,
or are deprecated and need to be updated. Hence, there was a need to design and 
develop a unified style guide to standardize WordPress documentation. 

### Objectives

Over 40% of the internet’s websites run on WordPress, which in turn indicates that
millions of developers and end-users are utilizing WordPress’ impressive functionalities.
Documentation is an essential element in assisting these developers and users to
efficiently fulfill these functionalities without any hassles, even in case of inconveniences.
The overall objective of this project was to standardize a design and style guide,
unify existing style guides, and update, as well as append new regulations and specifications
for WordPress documentation. This would enable ease of use, simplicity, and uniformity
in WordPress documentation.

### Implementation

#### Tools and methodologies

Before commencement of the project, my mentors and I established that a collaborative
platform would be best suited to accomodate the Style Guide. Even though WordPress
itself can efficiently manage editing and site administration, we chose GitGit Git
is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle 
everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy
to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin
and theme development is being done with this version control system. [https://git-scm.com/](https://git-scm.com/)
and GitHub, as they provide a collaborative platform with a commit history and proper
version control. This was especially advantageous as, with WordPress – one of the
largest open source communities – come numeorus contributions and thereby various
contributors, which would also make the Style Guide future-proof.

The documents were written in Markdown – of the GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) variety,
and then were parsed by a custom parser for make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The 
community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is 
where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as
well as the central location for community conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/),
courtesy of [@coffee2code](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/) from the
MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this
is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make
WordPress. team.

#### Contributions

Leading up to the project, I had already started my contributions to WordPress well
before the project commencement. I wrote, reviewed, and published various user and
support articles for the GutenbergGutenberg The 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/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)
BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed
together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The
idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom
HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Editor
End-user (BEE) Documentation team. As a mentor for the WordPress Documentation Mentorship
team, I assisted new members and contributors to get conditioned to WordPress’ work
protocols and contributing guidelines. Additionally, I also participated at the 
Virtual Contributors Day at WCEU 2020, and contributed to the WordPress CoreCore
Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team
builds WordPress., Meta, and Polyglots communities.

Altogether, these interactions, involvements, and contributions proved to be beneficial
for me to distinguish myself as a proficient technical writer, as well as a key 
contributor and team member that would efficiently complete a project.

During the doc development phase, even though there was no explicit requirement,
I made an intention to consistently push commits to the repository everyday for 
the duration of the project – without diminishing the standard of my contributions.
With the exclusion of one day, (December 1, 2020 to be exact – where I lost track
of time submitting my Master’s applications :P) I achieved my intention of contributing
daily.

These are my daily contributions to WordPress on GitHub (for what they’re worth).

[[

[Contributions to WordPress in 2020](https://github.com/tacitonic) by [@tacitonic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tacitonic/)

[[

[Contributions to WordPress in 2021](https://github.com/tacitonic) by [@tacitonic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tacitonic/)

GitHub repository for the WordPress Documentation Style Guide: [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide)

This repository was specifically created for the WordPress Documentation Style Guide
and my Google Season of Docs project. Accordingly, all of my commits and issues 
pertinent to the project can be found on the repository.

Commits authored by [tacitonic](https://github.com/tacitonic): [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide/commits?author=tacitonic](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide/commits?author=tacitonic)

#### Timeline and deliverables

Initially, my project was a standard-length project (3 months). 20 days into the
project, I realized that there was a lot more to this project than what was my initial
idea. As I researched extensively into style guides, dictionaries, and existing 
documentation, I came across newer topics and articles that needed to be added. 
Additionally, I had also been spending more time on writing every article than expected.

So, I asked my mentors whether I could extend my project duration from standard-
length to long-running (5 months). They coordinated with the respective individuals
and officially extended the project to a long-running one.

My main concern towards extending the project was that if the project were to be
limited to the standard-length, the essential aspects of the Style Guide would have
been left for some contributor after myself. I, having already researched so much
into style guides, had a clear path of what else was needed. Moreover, every contributor
volunteers their own time to any open source project; there’s no assurance that 
any individual would commit their time for an extensive project such as this one.
So conclusively, I extended my project duration – giving myself more time to complete
my deliverables.

#### Article structure of the WordPress Documentation Style Guide

 * [Introduction](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/)
    - [Changelog](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/welcome/changelog/)
    - [Highlights](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/welcome/highlights/)
 * [General guidelines](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/)
    - [Document structure](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/document-structure/)
    - [Style, voice, and tone](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/style-voice-tone/)
    - [Accessibility](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/accessibility/)
    - [Global audience](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/global-audience/)
    - [Inclusivity](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/inclusivity/)
    - [Facts and claims](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/facts-claims/)
    - [External sources](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/external-sources/)
    - [Contributing to the Style Guide](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/contributing-to-style-guide/)
 * [Language and grammar](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/)
    - [Abbreviations](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/abbreviations/)
    - [Articles (a, an, the)](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/articles/)
    - [Capitalization](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/capitalization/)
    - [Clauses](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/clauses/)
 *  - [Contractions](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/contractions/)
 *  - [Direct and indirect speech](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/direct-indirect-speech/)
 *  - [Grammatical person](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/grammatical-person/)
 *  - [Nouns](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/nouns/)
 *  - [Plurals](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/plurals/)
 *  - [Possessives](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/possessives/)
 *  - [Prefixes and suffixes](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/prefixes-suffixes/)
 *  - [Prepositions](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/prepositions/)
 *  - [Pronouns](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/pronouns/)
 *  - [Tense](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/tense/)
 *  - [Verbs](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/verbs/)
 *  - [Voice](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/voice/)
 *  - [Word Choice](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/word-choice/)
 * [Punctuation](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/)
    - [Apostrophes](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/apostrophes/)
    - [Colons](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/colons/)
    - [Commas](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/commas/)
    - [Dashes](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/dashes/)
 *  - [Ellipses](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/ellipses/)
 *  - [Exclamation points](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/exclamation-points/)
 *  - [Hyphens](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/hyphens/)
 *  - [Parentheses](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/parentheses/)
 *  - [Periods](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/periods/)
 *  - [Question marks](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/question-marks/)
 *  - [Quotation marks](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/quotation-marks/)
 *  - [Semicolons](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/semicolons/)
 *  - [Slashes](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/slashes/)
 * [Formatting](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/)
    - [Dates and times](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/dates-times/)
    - [Examples and scenarios](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/examples/)
    - [Filenames, file formats, and types](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/filenames/)
 *  - [Footnotes](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/footnotes/)
 *  - [Headings and titles](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/headings/)
 *  - [Key terms](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/key-terms/)
 *  - [Lists](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/lists/)
 *  - [Media](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/media/)
 *  - [Numbers](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/numbers/)
 *  - [Notices](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/notices/)
 *  - [Obsolete content](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/obsolete-content/)
    - [Phone numbers](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/phone-numbers/)
    - [Procedures and instructions](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/procedures/)
    - [Tables](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/tables/)
    - [Text formatting](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/text/)
    - [Trademarks](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/trademarks/)
    - [Units of measurement](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/units-of-measurement/)
    - [Words as words](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/words-as-words/)
 * [Linking](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/)
    - [Cross-references](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/cross-references/)
    - [External links](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/external-links/)
    - [Headings as link targets](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/heading-targets/)
    - [Image links](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/image-links/)
    - [Link text](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/link-text/)
 * [Developer content](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/)
    - [Code examples](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/code-examples/)
    - [Code in text](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/code-in-text/)
    - [Coding standards](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/coding-standards/)
    - [Command-line syntax](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/command-line-syntax/)
    - [Placeholders](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/placeholders/)
    - [UI elements and interaction](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/ui-elements/)
 * [Word list and usage dictionary](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/word-list/)
    - [Numbers](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/word-list/numbers/),
      [Symbols](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/word-list/symbols/),
      [A-Z](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/word-list/)

#### Research and references

While planning as well as designing and writing, I researched existing style guides,
dictionaries, and WordPress documentation extensively:

 * [Google Developer Documentation Style Guide](https://developers.google.com/style)
 * [Microsoft Writing Style Guide](https://docs.microsoft.com/style-guide/welcome/)
 * [Apple Style Guide](https://help.apple.com/applestyleguide/)
 * [IBM developerWorks editorial style guide](https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/styleguidelines/index.html)
 * [Red Hat technical documentation style guide](https://stylepedia.net/)
 * [Mozilla Writing style guide](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/MDN/Guidelines/Writing_style_guide)
 * [The Chicago Manual of Style](https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
 * [American Heritage Dictionary](https://ahdictionary.com/)
 * [Merriam-Webster Dictionary](https://www.merriam-webster.com/)
 * [WordPress Glossary](https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/)
 * [WordPress Jargon Glossary – Make WordPress.org Marketing](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/handbook/wordpress-jargon-glossary/)
 * [Handbook – Make WordPress Documentation](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/documentation-team-handbook/)
 * [WordPress Developer resources](https://developer.wordpress.org/)

## Collaboration

### Mentors

Mentor: Milana Cap [@milana_cap](https://profiles.wordpress.org/milana_cap/)

Mentor: Felipe Elia [@felipeelia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/felipeelia/)

Org admin: Chloé Bringmann [@cbringmann](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/)

Documentation Team Lead: Jon Ang [@kenshino](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kenshino/)

### Weekly meetings

Even before the community bonding phase, I participated in weekly meetings over 
SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
to know more about the functioning of WordPress, the Documentation team, as well
as many other teams. During the doc development phase, I provided my weekly updates
every Monday during the Docs team meeting. Occasionally the team would also discuss
particular elements or articles in the Style Guide which were worth exchanging views
about.

I would also clear up issues and difficulties during meetings; or would have them
promptly cleared up in async – thanks to my mentors.

## Challenges

There were a fair share of challenges that I encountered during writing the Style
Guide. The first thing that I recollect thinking about challenges, is that I could
not come up with relevant examples by any means whatsoever. I had my own tribulations
while inventing my own examples. But once I referred to relevant documentation, 
existing handbooks, and support articles, I was comfortable with writing them.

What is imperative for a style guide, I had to spend plenty of time researching 
into what some might even consider trivial details. A great proportion of my time
was dedicated towards writing accurate and unambiguous documentation.

Another challenge was related to the inherent functioning of any open source organization.
Though WordPress is one of the largest open source communities, each contributor
volunteers their own time to progress the project. You cannot expect and presume
that someone would do a task on time as if they were employed by the organization.
You have to be accomodating, and you’ll get your tasks done in good time. Regardless,
WordPress’ contributors are dedicated individuals who are the benefactors of free
and open source software.

## Peculiar learnings

Having to build a style guide from scratch, I researched hundreds of pages in style
guides, manuals, and developer documentation. Aside from researching, another huge
task was to actually design and write the Style Guide. One might say that as a technical
writer, you just have to formulate a plan and write documentation. But in the eight
months since I started working on this project, I learned quite a lot of things 
in addition to writing and designing, that normally I wouldn’t have – and rather
quite expeditiously.

Just to enumerate a few:

 * I refreshed my [grammar](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/)
   memory and satisfied my appetite for meticulous punctuation.
 * I learnt a great deal about [accessibility](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/accessibility/),
   and how most of us don’t even consider how impactful it might be to many individuals.
 * WordPress is a global project and working with the WordPress community gave me
   a unique [global perspective](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/global-audience/).
   I wrote documentation with the likelihood that it would be translated to hundreds
   of locales.
 * As is my bland vocabulary, I learnt hundreds, if not thousands of new words by
   searching for synonyms.
 * I rejoiced writing down minute technicalities in [Punctuation](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/)
   and [Formatting](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/).
 * I adopted the [Oxford/Serial comma](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/commas/#oxfordserial-commas)
   in my writing.
 * I learnt hundreds of new concepts that would certainly benefit me in the course
   of time. A few of them:
    - [Command-line syntax](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/developer-content/command-line-syntax/)
    - [Heading targets](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/linking/heading-targets/)
    - [Trademarks](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/formatting/trademarks/)
    - [Straight and curly (typographer’s) quotation marks](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/punctuation/quotation-marks/)
    - [Acronyms, initialisms, contractions, and shortened terms](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/abbreviations/)
    - [Inclusive documentation](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/general-guidelines/inclusivity/)
 * Being probably the last generation that uses _fax_, I learnt that it is an abbreviation
   of _facsimile_.
 * I explored more music genres and expanded my playlists while writing articles.
   😛

I think, in this regard, Google Season of Docs and other open source programs prove
to be exceptional avenues in upskilling individuals.

## Future prospects

 * Assign a permanent location for the Style Guide in WordPress docs.
 * Iron out parser inconsistencies.
 * Write the remaining articles in the word list and usage dictionary.
 * Complete internal linking and cross-referencing.
 * Review regulations that apply across all documentation.

In the immediate future, I plan to continue contributing to new projects and documentation
as a team member of the WordPress Documentation Team. As I have earlier, I will 
also participate in and contribute to other WordPress teams such as Meta, Core, 
and Polyglots. I’ll continue supporting the Documentation Style Guide in my role
as project committer and maintainer.

## Conclusion

I sincerely hope that the Style Guide proves to be beneficial for WordPress developers
and users alike. Designing and writing the Style Guide for a well-known organization
such as WordPress was a unique opportunity, and I would like to thank Google for
providing a program and platform for technical writers to achieve these opportunities.
I was able to advance my technical writing and write over a 100 articles in a rather
brief period of time. I would definitely distinguish this project as successful,
and a favourable outcome for both WordPress and myself. The WordPress community 
has been one of the most affable and engaging communities in open source, and I 
look forward to a lot more persistent contributions to WordPress.

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