Finding WordPress Help
If you haven’t already, in some point in your WordPress-coding/designing life, you’re going to come across a WordPress bug or something you just don’t know how to fix or get working. So what do you do? If you’re like me, you’ll first ask your coding buddies, then hit up Google to see what you can find, then maybe head over to the WordPress Codex, if all else fails. Here are some alternatives to getting WordPress help so you don’t have to bother your coding buddies.
WordPress IRC
WordPress has provided an IRC channel specifically for users to login and get some WordPress help. All you need is an IRC client application and you’re good to go.
WordPress FAQs
The WordPress Codex has a whole section dedicated to FAQs. In there you’ll find some FAQs on Layout and Design, Working with WordPress, Developer Documentation, and Advanced Topics.
WordPress Forums
I usually hate forums. Especially when I’m looking for help. But nonetheless, they do the job most of the time. Some of my favorite WordPress support forums are listed below:
Google, believe it or not, is one of my favorite places to get WordPress help. Google knows a ton of junk. If there’s an answer for your problem, Google is most likely to know where it is. If there aren’t any great search results for your search, it probably means you’re one of the few people having that problem, so don’t be shy, go to a forum and ask!
When using Google, you can use specific keywords to search a specific site. As Hafiz Rahman commented below, you can use “site:codex.wordpress.org” to search WordPress’s Codex directly from a search engine, and it’s more accurate! Click here for more on search engine tricks.
Hafiz Rahman
Posted on March 5th, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Useful post
Just to add a bit, in my experience, searching things in Codex using Google (as in ” site:codex.wordpress.org”) is vastly more accurate than using Codex’s on search engine.
Michael Castilla
Posted on March 5th, 2008 at 10:31 PM
@Hafiz - Oh that’s right! Thanks. I’ll add that bit in the post.
Jermayn Parker
Posted on March 5th, 2008 at 11:19 PM
and then if you still cannot find the answer, you could always post a question on your own blog/ website!
I have solved two issues doing that.
Ayush Saran
Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 12:27 AM
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Michael Castilla
Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 5:52 AM
@Jermayn - Very true! Maybe I’ll add that in, thanks.
@Ayush - Will do, thanks.
Zach K
Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 6:37 AM
Good resources.
I can’t say how many time the Wordpress codex has saved me.
Not to mention Google.
Curtis Henson
Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 7:11 PM
I have to agree with Hafiz, Google + WP Codex is the tops. Never thought about the IRC channel.
skarld
Posted on March 7th, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Community and documentation are what has made WP great. You can always find an answer.
Dan Cole
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 3:31 PM
I just wrote a post about Wordpress Support Forum and by what the numbers on their forum say, 75% of all questions asked are unresolved!
Jenny
Posted on March 14th, 2008 at 12:37 AM
i would LOVE to learn all the things they know about whatever when making those mag themes. i could SO use some of those features in my site plans but i don”t even know where to start with it all.
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 at 8:06 AM
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