WordPress Documentation Team Closes 200+ Issues — and Needs Your Help

The documentation team needs help, especially from coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., themes, and support contributors. As part of an overhaul, the Documentation Team has triaged and labeled nearly 800 issues in the 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/ documentation issue tracker, closing 200 so far. Many of the open issues belong to your teams. Find your area below, then:

• Close stale issues that are no longer relevant, or comment “Close this” if you don’t have access
• Comment with corrections or updated information when you spot something wrong
• If possible, draft doc changes and comment with markdown or a link to your draft

If you have permissions to close issues or update docs directly, even better. If not, your comments are exactly what’s needed to help the docs team take action.

Here are the open issues by area:

• Themes: 146 open issues.
• DevHub: 101 open issues (these may overlap with themes and advanced admin)
• Advanced Admin: 33 open issues.
• Migration from Codex: 12 open issues.
• Plugins: 10 open issues. 
• HelpHub: 358 open issues.
• Handbook: 18 open issues (some overlap with internal tasks)
• Internal tasks: 30 open issues.

Questions? PingPing The 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.” @estelaris in #docs on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.

7.0 documentation and other projects

Besides the overhaul, the docs team is focusing on WordPress 7.0 documentation and a revision of the handbook to include the recommendations given by @rossanatrujillo, a student from the WPCredits program.

Props to @awetz583 for reviewing this article and @supernovia for clarifying

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