Support Handbook

Welcome to the WordPress Support Handbook.

The WordPress Support Handbook is the number one destination for tips, tricks, and advice regarding
giving the best WordPress support possible.

This handbook is a guide put together by the community and represents over ten years of WordPress support experience. Please feel free to start with the selections to the left, and we hope you enjoy making use of this as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Need help with a WordPress issue?
You can find help with your WordPress problem by posting in the support forums or asking in IRC

Quick Links

• Forum welcome
• Forum guidelines
• WordPress.org Also Viewing – a script to help avoid duplicate replies on the same thread
• Pre-defined Support Responses ( Non-Moderator | Moderators )
• It may be helpful to use a text expander rather than cut & paste from the pre-defined replies page. This lets you adapt the language to your own voice: Text Expander for Chrome
• Forum posts with no replies: https://wordpress.org/support/view/no-replies
• 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/. Support Discussion Channel: #forums (meetings on Thursdays at 17:00 UTC)
• IRC Support Channel (IRC): #wordpress

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Perhaps you were looking for other documentation?

If you’re looking to create a website, write a blog, visit:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/new-to-wordpress-where-to-start/

There is an effort underway to document the WordPress codebase. You can find this at https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/

Handbooks for themes and plugins are here:

Themes: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/

Plugins: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/

Last updated: March 18, 2022