{"id":13607,"date":"2015-07-09T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/?post_type=handbook&#038;p=13607"},"modified":"2024-09-17T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T20:51:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"handbook","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WordPress <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>core<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Core<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/span> team is responsible for setting the direction of the WordPress project and developing every bit of code that ships with WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this section, you will learn more about how <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/organization\/\">the project is organized<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/philosophy\/\">philosophies<\/a> that WordPress has adopted over time, and <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/communication\/\">how the core team communicates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, a large portion of this section discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/release-cycle\/\">how the release cycle works<\/a>, from start to finish, including pages that detail the process for <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/release-cycle\/features-as-plugins\/\">features as plugins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/release-cycle\/version-numbering\/\">how WordPress \u201cnumbers\u201d each version<\/a>, steps involved with <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/release-cycle\/update-bundled-themes\/\">updating the bundled themes<\/a> (which takes place each release), and <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/release-cycle\/releasing-minor-versions\/\">how to release minor versions<\/a> of WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly, in this section you will learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/licensing\/\">how WordPress is licensed<\/a> and how to <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/about\/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day\/\">get started contributing<\/a> to WordPress.<\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"author":12560283,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13607","handbook","type-handbook","status-publish","hentry","author-samuelsidler","make-about"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/13607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/handbook"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/13607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115475,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/13607\/revisions\/115475"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/samuelsidler"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}