A concise, developer-focused index of the best WordPress resources available today. Built for developers working in the modern block-based WordPress ecosystem.
Primary sources maintained by the WordPress project: documentation, developer handbooks, community learning, and contribution guides.
- WordPress News: Latest news and updates about WordPress core and blocks. Core announcements, feature updates, release cycles.
- WordPress Documentation: User-facing platform documentation. Learn how to use WordPress.
- WordPress Learning: Learning pathways to build skills progressively from beginner to advanced. Suitable for designers and beginners who are just starting out with WordPress looking for learning platform with structured courses. Guided learning paths for all levels.
- WordPress Forums: Community to ask and discuss things about WordPress. Community Q&A.
- WordPress TV: Videos about WordPress from WordCamps, events, developers, mentorship programs etc.
- Developer Portal: Documentation, API references, developer blogs for developers. Learn how to develop with WordPress.
- Developer Blogs: Catch up on the latest news from the Developer Blog.
- Documentation Contributor Handbook: Processes for improving documentation.
- Contribute to WordPress: Everything related to contributing to core.
Focused documentation for modern WP development.
- Block Editor Handbook: Canonical guide to building blocks and editor-related tools. Create the building blocks of WordPress.
- Theme Developer Handbook: Learn how to build your own theme (block themes + classic themes).
- Plugin Developer Handbook: Dive into the world of plugin authoring. Covers plugin architecture, security, patterns.
- Common APIs: Explore APIs in the software and the ecosystem.
- Advanced Administration: Dig into the technical side of site management.
- WordPress Playground: Reference for the browser-based WordPress runtime.
- Code Reference: Read through the codebase documentation. Core functions, classes, hooks.
- REST API: Start creating your own apps with WordPress. Full REST docs with schema.
- Run WP-CLI Commands: Accelerate your workflow managing WordPress. All CLI commands and flags.
- Coding Standards: Official PHP, JS, and CSS standards. Ensure your code is up to date.
- Full Site Editing by Carolina Nymark: Education resource for learning about Full Site Editing powered by the modern block editor. Clean, accurate FSE tutorials and examples.
- WP Engine Developer Resources: High-quality modern WP tutorials to build powerful WordPress and Headless websites. Modern front-end + headless + block development tutorials.
Courses by Mike McAlister from Olliewp
- Theme Academy: Complete free video course for WordPress Block Theme Development.
- Block Academy: Free video course for WordPress Block Development
Everything related to building, running, and debugging WP projects. Best-in-class tools for local development, block building, debugging, testing.
- Create Block Theme: A WordPress plugin to create block themes. With FSE, using a boilerplate theme is not really necessary. You can use this plugin to create a block theme with ease that you can use as a starting point for your project. Block development is very actively moving forward and this plugin is a great way to get started.
- @wordpress/create-block: An official tool for scaffolding a WordPress plugin that registers a block. It is largely inspired by create-react-app.
- @wordpress/scripts: A collection of reusable scripts tailored for WordPress development. It is inspired by react-scripts and kcd-scripts.
- WordPress Playground: A browser-based instance for testing and developing WordPress projects. It is a platform that lets you run WordPress instantly on any device without a host.
- @wordpress/env: Official Docker-based dev environment for building and testing plugins and themes.
- WP-CLI: Command-line interface for managing WordPress installations.
- WordPress Studio: free, open-source app to install and manage multiple WordPress sites locally.
- LocalWP: Fast, beginner-friendly local environment.
- Instant WordPress: free, standalone, portable WordPress development environment.
- Query Monitor: Essential tool for debugging WordPress with a focus on presenting information in a useful manner.
- PHPUnit: A tool for testing PHP code.
- PHP CodeSniffer: A tool for checking coding standards in PHP code. You can find codesniffer rules to enforce WordPress coding conventions at WordPress Coding Standards.
High-signal, reliable community resources.
- Make WordPress Core: Official WordPress Core development blog. Official engineering updates and deep dives.
- Ryan Welcher: Practical tutorials, blogs and examples for modern WP dev.
- Brian Coords: Video series, newsletter, podcasts, tutorials from Brian Coords, developer advocate for WooCommerce.
- Nick Diego: Blogs and Projects related to WordPress. Nick is the creator of some cool modern WordPress plugins (icon block, block visibility etc).
- Misha Rudrastyh Digital: Programmatic development approaches with focus on WordPress.
- WP Engine Resource Center: Comprehensive resources for WordPress development. Fint articles, ebooks, guides and more.