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Welcome to the WPTV Plugin wiki!

Intro

The WPTV plugin is a community project lead by members of the WordPress.tv team. The purpose of this project is to create a useful WordPress plugin which can help improve the user experience and reduce the learning challenges for new users in the WordPress dashboard by presenting relevant videos in the contextual help menu throughout the wp-admin.

Where do the videos come from?

From the coolest site on the web: WordPress.tv! This site contains hundreds of amazing videos from professionals across the globe speaking on and teaching all kinds of different topics relating to our favorite CMS.

How does it work?

Currently, for almost every page in a standard WordPress dashboard, the WPTV plugin will make a request to WordPress.tv for videos relating to that page and list several results (and a link to see more) inside the contextual help menu.

What is being done?

Currently the WPTV team is working on several aspects of this project with the eventual goal of this plugin being at least incredibly useful to many beginners to WordPress and at most a possible feature plugin candidate for a future release of WordPress.

Here is a list of the current components to this project which are being actively worked on:

  1. The code. In order to be useful and effective, this plugin needs some technical love. Improving the performance, accounting for language settings, finding the ideal placement of content, tweaking the UI, etc. are all being discussed and worked on.

  2. Identifying existing WPTV content which would be useful to WP beginners and tagging/categorizing appropriately.

  3. Assigning the appropriate tags and categories from WPTV to specific screens in the wp-admin.

  4. Create a comprehensive list of wp-admin screens and track progress towards 100% wp-admin coverage.

  5. Obtaining new, quality tutorial style videos. The WPTV team is leading an initiative to create and encourage the community to contribute quality tutorial videos which will be uploaded to WordPress.tv and will be the primary videos utilized by this plugin.

How can I help?

You're awesome! We need lots of help. Here are some suggestions:

  1. Join our weekly chats in the #wptv channel in Making WordPress Slack at 17:00 UTC

  2. Check out our spreadsheet of the videos we need to get produced or obtained here.

  3. If you're a developer, feel free to make pull requests on this repo and to log issues here as well.

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