Welcome to the official home of the WordPress documentation team.
This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the Codex (moving to HelpHub and DevHub), handbooks, parts of developer.wordpress.org, admin help, inline docs, and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.
Want to get involved?
There are many ways in which you can help the Docs team. Every small contribution counts and helps! You can report an issue or typo you found in the docs, or even help us write new documentation for parts that are still missing. These are some helpful links to find out more about what we do and how to collaborate:
The Codex is a community-created repository for WordPress documentation. Anyone can edit any of the information on the Codex, and only a WordPress.org user account is required to create a page.
At this moment in time, the Codex is not actively maintained and pages are migrated to wp-helphub.com. More information about the migration is here.
Anyone can help, from beginner to advanced. You do not have to be familiar with WordPress or even how the WordPress Codex works to pitch in.
Simply log in to the WordPress Codex with your WordPress.org login, and find a page that needs some help. Click EDIT next to the section that needs correction and fix it.
If you wish to change the look and feel of the page’s content, use the Editing Help guidelines.
To do more than just fix spelling errors and grammar:
Starting point for guidelines on how to contribute: Codex Guidelines
Editing: We need volunteers to just edit, to fix what we misspell, and grammar errors. You can use the Random Page to find any page on the Codex and review it, or check out the articles marked as Category:Copyedit, our request for articles that are unfinished, or need more work and review.
Check the Task List: This blog features an extensive list of things to do, so assign yourself to a task or comment on one to help get it done.
Start a New Article: If you have a tip, technique, or specific code to help WordPress do better, check out what’s already available in the following areas and consider what you can add that’s new. Check out How to Start an Article on the Codex for tips on creating a draft.
WordPress Lessons: Simple how-tos and tutorials for using all the features of WordPress (for beginners).
Working with WordPress: More structured tutorials on how to use the features of WordPress, for intermediate to advanced users.
The following are maintenance categories featuring articles that need work. Click any of them, make the necessary edits, and when ready, remove the “stub” to remove them from that category. If necessary and applicable, alert the Docs team for permission before removing the stub.
Additional maintenance pages are found in Special pages.
The WordPress Codex uses the following “stubs” and categories for tracking our writing, editing, and maintenance pages. Place these at the top or bottom of a page as appropriate.
{{Stub}}: The Stub categorizes the page as incomplete and in need of editing and expansion. To view: Category:Stubs.
{{Draft}}: Put this at the top of the page. All pages added are scanned by search engines. The Draft notice at the top of every page will warn others that this is a work in progress, that the information may be incorrect, and may also warn others not to edit it until you are finished working on it. To view: Category:Drafts.
[[Category:New page created]]: Defines a page as new, and will attract the attention of editors. Do not use until you are ready for editing and/or moving the article out into the general documentation from your user page. To view and edit: Category:New page created.
{{Copyedit}}: Copyedit designates this article as in need of work, usually general overview and editing. It marks it as fairly complete but needing review. Use {{Stub}} for incomplete articles. To view articles awaiting editing work: Category:Copyedit.
