WordPress:Mailing Lists
The WordPress project has a number of email lists focused on different facets of development. Note that none of these lists is appropriate for user support. The best place for user support is the Support Forums.
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Mailing Lists
Announcements
This list is meant for major announcements regarding the WordPress project, like new releases. You can join this list using the form at the bottom of any page on WordPress.org. The announcement list is one-way and very low traffic.
Documentation
The wp-docs list was created to facilitate coordination and collaboration between members of the community who want to contribute to WordPress documentation. No coding skills required, just a lot of patience. The list tends to be low-traffic, but can have bursts of activity.
Hackers
The wp-hackers list is meant for people interested in extending WordPress either through plugins or improvements to the core code. Serious discussion that determines the future direction of the WordPress codebase takes place here. The list can be fairly high traffic at times, if you don't want to subscribe check out the summary.
XML-RPC
A hackers list for the XML-RPC topic relating to WordPress.
Testers
The wp-testers list is meant for people to discuss the current nightly or alpha/beta version of wordpress. If you want to discuss the latest nightly or a certain bug report left on the trac, feel free to drop in.
Support Forum Volunteers
The WordPress WordPress:Support Forum Volunteers work hard to help users answer questions about WordPress. Discussions pertaining to providing support to users and WordPress Forum issues and activities are found in the WordPress Support Forum Mailing list. Support questions will not be answered. If you would like to volunteer to help on the WordPress Forum, we recommend you sign up for the wp-forums mailing list.
THIS IS NOT A SUPPORT MAILING LIST.
It is for Support Volunteers Only.
For specific WordPress support questions, please direct your inquiries to WordPress Support Forum.
Polyglots
The wp-polyglots mailing list has been created keeping the needs of translators in mind. If you are interested in translating WordPress to suit your locale and language preferences, or would like to get involved in discussions regarding the same, consider joining this list.
- Join the wp-polyglots mailing list
- Visit the wp-polyglots mailing list archives
- Dev Blog post announcing the wp-polyglots list
Professional
Sometimes there are professional consulting opportunities surrounding some aspect of the WordPress codebase for people who are familiar with the program. This list is for people looking for WordPress consulting to connect with professionals who provide it. This is the list for you if you are looking for professional paid help regarding WordPress
SVN / CVS updates
Updates to the SVN repository are mirrored on the WP- SVN mailing list. Whenever a change is checked in to the WordPress repository an email is sent to the wp-svn list with a listing of each of the lines that changed. This is very useful if you want to follow WordPress development very closely. This is an announcment-only list, which means if you want to discuss a change please use the [[WordPress:#Hackers|hackers]] list.
The wp-svn list supercedes the old CVS mailing list.
The archives for the CVS mailing list are available for historic purposes at the following location:
Trac
The wp-trac reports additions and changes to Tickets at Trac, the WordPress bug tracking system.
Managing Preferences Using Email
You should visit the webpages listed for the mailing lists above, but you can also perform various mailing list related actions by sending emails to specific email address. Please do not send emails to the list asking to be unsubscribed, or removed. Use the webpages for the list or the following email commands :
These email commands work only when you send mail from the mail account fow which you want to change or update preferences. In the following section <list-name> stands for the name of the list in questions, such as 'hackers' or 'wp-docs'. If in doubt, remember that the <list-name> is the same as the portion that precedes the @wordpress.org in the email address you use to send emails to the mailing list.
You can request help regarding managing preferences and subscription options by sending a mail to <list-name>-request@lists.automattic.com with "help" in the Subject of the email. For example, to request help with preferences and options for the wp-hackers mailing list, you should send an email to wp-hackers-request@lists.automattic.com with the word "help" (without the quotes, of course), in the Subject field of the email.
You can subscribe to the list by sending an email to <list-name>-subscribe@lists.automattic.com with "subscribe" in the Subject of the email.
You can unsubscribe from the list by sending an email to <list-name>-unsubscribe@lists.automattic.com with "unsubscribe" in the Subject Field.
List Etiquette
A few reminders that shall keep mailing lists happy and productive places for everyone:
- Don't berate anyone, it's better not to reply. Be polite.
- Give people the benefit of the doubt.
- Remember English isn't everyone's first language.
- Feel free to reply to someone off-list.
- Discuss ideas, not people.