Welcome to the official blog for the WordPress Support team.
Need help with a WordPress issue? You can find help with your WordPress problem by posting in the support forums or asking on the #wordpress IRC channel.
Want to get involved?
Answering a question in the support forums or on IRC is one of the easiest ways to get started. Everyone knows the answer to something!
We have a detailed handbook to help contributors learn how to work with the forums and IRC.
Weekly Meetings
As well as discussing support issues here on the blog, we use Slack for group communication.
Our weekly meeting is held every Thursday 17:00 UTC, with the first meeting of the month being office hours, and the next will be at Thursday, 17:00 UTC(your time zone) in #forums on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
WordPress Answers, more commonly known as WordPress Stack Exchange (WPSE), is part of Stack Exchange question and answer site network. It was created on initiative of network users and is not affiliated with the WordPress project.
On the site questions about WordPress can be freely asked and answered, as long as they are in the scope as defined by site’s FAQ. Site users vote on questions/answers and earn a reputation score, based on votes they receive.
The basic activities on site are asking, answering and voting. You are not required to register an account on the site in order to ask or answer questions. However, registration is recommended so that your reputation and attribution of your questions and answers are tracked correctly.
You can suggest edits to all questions and answers on site to clarify and improve them. Your edits are peer-reviewed by other users and appear if approved.
As your reputation increases you gain additional privileges on site, that allow you access to additional actions and tools to contribute.
Popular WordPress extensions (especially plugins) can gather considerable amount of questions on site and it is customary to tag them with plugin-name and theme-name. If you are developer or expert on such extension you can keep an eye on tag page and subscribe to it via RSS.
In line with network rules WPSE is community-moderated site and network employees’ involvement in day-to-day operation is minimal.
Any questions or suggestions about site should be asked in special Meta section, where they are answered by users, community-elected moderators and network employees (if necessary).