Title: Moderating Photos
Author: Angela Jin
Published: March 16, 2022
Last modified: March 11, 2025

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# Moderating Photos

## In this article

 * [How to join the moderation team](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/?output_format=md#how-to-join-the-moderation-team)
 * [Where Photo Directory Moderators connect](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/?output_format=md#where-photo-directory-moderators-connect)

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Photo Moderators help maintain and grow the Photo Directory by reviewing and curating
submitted photos, and helping to onboard new Moderators. Additionally, Moderators
can help inform and refine the moderation process! 

Anyone is welcome to contribute in this way, although it is particularly helpful
if you already have experience with: 

 * Photography
 * Excellent communication in 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.
   communities
 * Moderation best practices

To keep the Photo Directory a thriving resource, Moderators are needed for the foreseeable
future, perhaps dedicating up to an hour of their time each week.

## 󠀁[How to join the moderation team](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/?output_format=md#how-to-join-the-moderation-team)󠁿

To join the Photo Directory Moderator team, first focus on contributing your photos.
Once you are comfortable with the process and the team’s guidelines and have at 
least 30 photos published, please fill out the following form.

[ Back](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/?output_format=md)

#### Thank you for your response. ✨

 Name

 Email

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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/) username

 City/State/Country

 Do you have previous WordPress experience? No previous experience is required, 
it’s just helpful to know!

 What excites you about becoming a Photo Directory moderator?

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## 󠀁[Where Photo Directory Moderators connect](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/?output_format=md#where-photo-directory-moderators-connect)󠁿

Want to get in touch with us? Awesome! Here’s where you can find us. 

 * [Make Photos Team](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/)
 * Join the [Making WordPress Slack](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) and find 
   us in the [#Photos](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/photos/) channel
 * If you’ve encountered an issue or have a suggestion for the Photo Directory, 
   feel free to [create a ticket](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/newticket?component=Photo%20Directory).
 * Email us at [photos@wordpress.org](https://make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos/photos@wordpress.org?output_format=md)
 * And of course, the [Photo Directory](https://wordpress.org/photos/)!

First published

March 16, 2022

Last updated

March 11, 2025

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