The WordPress Documentation Style Guide is one of Google Season of Docs' projects for 2020.
- Technical writer: Atharva Dhekne (@tacitonic)
- Mentors: Felipe Elia (@felipeelia) and Milana Cap (@zzap)
Quick links:
- WordPress Documentation Style Guide
- Google Season of Docs original project proposal for tacitonic (Atharva Dhekne) – Google Developers
- WordPress Documentation Style Guide – Google Season of Docs 2020 Project Report
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| 🔄 | In progress |
| ✔️ | Completed |
| ❌ | Discarded |
| Needs changes |
| Component | Status |
|---|---|
| WordPress style guide | ✔️ |
| Style guide highlights | ✔️ |
| Other resources | ✔️ |
| Changelog | ✔️ |
| Component | Status |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | ✔️ |
| Document structure | ✔️ |
| Changes to the guide (New component) | ✔️ |
| Encoding | ✔️ |
| External sources | ✔️ |
| Facts | ✔️ |
| Fonts | ✔️ (Moved to Formatting) |
| Global audience | ✔️ |
| Inclusivity | ✔️ |
| Legality, licensing, trademarks | ✔️ (Moved to Formatting) |
| Multi-platform accessibility | ✔️ |
| Non-ambiguous, no excessive claims | ✔️ |
| Page layout | ✔️ |
| Political correctness | ✔️ |
| Protocols | ✔️ |
| Security | ✔️ |
| Sentence structure | ✔️ |
| Succinct writing | ✔️ |
| Tone and style | ✔️ |
| Unbiased | ✔️ |
| Component | Status |
|---|---|
| Abbreviations and acronyms | ✔️ |
| Affirmation and negation | ❌ |
| Articles | ✔️ |
| Capitalization | ✔️ |
| Clause | ✔️ |
| Contractions (New component) | ✔️ |
| Direct/indirect speech | ✔️ |
| Genders | ✔️ (Moved to Pronouns) |