Bug Reports

7:49 pm on January 29, 2014
Bug Reports
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There are many ways to contribute. We have a detailed contributor handbook to help get you started. If you want to get started quickly, try one of the Getting Started reports below — test a patch, or grab a bug and see if you can reproduce the problem it describes.
If you have encountered a security issuesecurity issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the WordPress core code, and that you have determined can be used to gain some level of access to a site running WordPress that you should not have. in WordPress, please contact security at wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and 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/. For more, see our ​Security FAQ.


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