• WordPress Documentation Team - Know who is in charge and who to turn to
• Guidelines - The heavenly handbook of Codex rules.
• Styles - Documentation of the general styles of the Codex — please follow these so pages look well together.
• Sandbox - Your experimental playground
• Contributing - How to help out at the Codex
• Editing - How to layout and design a Codex page
• Codex Tasks - Things needing to be done and sign up list

Discussions on the Codex

Discussions on the Codex and Wp-docs mailing list are restricted to topics related to writing WordPress documentation. To post a question about information on an article in the Codex, use the Discussion Tab at the top of the article's page. To post a question to an individual Codex user, visit their User Page and post the question in their Discussion page. Answers will be posted on your User Discussion page. Sign all comments and discussions with four tildes (~) and it will display your name and time with a link to your User Page like this:
Fred Smith 03:07, 10 Apr 2014 (UTC)

Again, welcome and let us know how we can help you help us on the WordPress Codex.

Josh, thanks for your contributions to Codex and Wordpess! MichaelH (talk) 04:11, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup

Thanks for signing up for the Cleanup Week. There is a LOT to do, cleaning and otherwise, so don't think that there isn't. We also have to clean up behind the cleaners...;-) Nah. But there is a lot of work to clean up the documentation and maintain the current styles on the Codex which are not found within the older documents. And we still need people to clean up the validation errors. That's a huge task. Lots to do. We need all the help we can get, and thank you for volunteering to make this cleanup possible.

I was checking the task list and I see that you crossed off the "Rotating Images" article on the list. These are only crossed off when they are completed and moved into the main documentation. I haven't been able to locate the document, so if I've overlooked it, please let me know. We have a lot of activity right now and I'm worried about overlooking something.

If you are just starting the article, we need to leave the strike out off.

Documents within the WordPress Lessons have very special criteria and guidelines, different from the rest of the Codex, and I monitor these very carefully because of this. We request that these articles be first set in a user's page subpage by putting a link from your user page to the article like this [[User:Name/Name of Article]] rather than in the general documentation so they can be reviewed.

Thanks for the help. We are desperate for these article topics and I look forward to reviewing the article and preparing it for release within the main documentation. With your help, WordPress users will get the help they need and answers to the many questions they have.

Thank you! Lorelle 14:42, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

We Thank You

The Codex Documenation Team and all of WordPress thank you for your time, effort, and contributions during this past Codex Cleanup Week. It has been amazing. Over twenty new documents were added, and more are still in the works that will be released over the next couple of weeks. The entire Codex is now categorized, improving the ability of users to find the related information they are looking for.

The next big Codex-related event is WordPress Backup Week July 23-30. The project will promote backing up your WordPress database and site for the user's protection and further develop the relationship between the Codex and the WordPress Support Forum. Documentation volunteers will be cleaning up and expanding the backup and restore information on the site and Forum volunteers will be readied to help users in the Forum walk through their site backups. We need your help.

We are also starting a page for information and sign up for a variety of Fundraising and Promotions Events for WordPress and your help is needed there, too.

Thanks again for helping.

Lorelle and the whole Cleanup Codex volunteer team

Rotating Images

You signed up to do a WordPress Lesson on rotating images and I just wanted to check the status and tell you that a topic in the Forum has some interesting information related to this topic : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38095. Thanks! Lorelle 19:05, 3 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Adding Keywords to Themes List

To help users find themes appropriate to their needs, we are asking Theme authors and volunteers to create a keyword description list for all the Themes on the Using Themes/Theme List.

These are not reviews but searchable keywords. Examples include:

• Minimal, large header, elastic layout across width of screen, navigation in header, sidebar on right on all views
• Minimalistic, white background, letter look, centered on page, Default Theme style sidebar on right, no sidebar on single post page, based on Default Theme. (Screenshot)
• Content against left margin, simple, sidebar and/or navigation on right, post content in "boxes". (Demo Site)

Specifically, users need to know:

• Sidebar on right, left, two sidebars (positioning), and sidebars on single post view and/or multi-post views
• Minimalistic, busy, boxed, round corners, structural details
• Elastic width, fixed in the center, or fixed width against the left margin
• Incorporation of plugins
• If screenshot or full demo available for viewing
• Navigation in header, sidebar, and/or footer
• Header ready for header image
• Gallery, photoblog, or CMS features
• Languages (Only available in a non-English language? If language specific, please post a link on WordPress in Your Language, too)

Thank you for helping us flesh out the Theme list and help direct users to the Themes they need. And thank you for your valuable contributions to the WordPress Community. Lorelle 22:23, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)