Below we’ve gathered a few answers to some common questions about using our support forums to help get you oriented.
There are several ways to start new topics. The easiest is to navigate to the forums homepage where there’s a link to “Add new topic“. Clicking that link will take you to a form to fill out to start a new topic.
Note that you must have a WordPress.com account, and you must be logged in, before you can start a topic. If you click the “Add new topic” link and are not logged in you will be redirected to the login screen before you are taken to the new topic form.
To ensure you receive the best possible help, please keep the following in mind:
- Use descriptive titles. Summarize your question or issue. The more descriptive your title the better.
- Make it easy to read. Don’t use fancy formatting in your posts if it’s not necessary. Lists are great if you’ve got several questions, or if you need to outline steps to reproduce an issue you’re having. CAPSLOCK IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. 🙂
- Search before posting. Chances are that someone has had the same problem as you before. Check to see if there are similar topics, and try not to create duplicates.
- Be patient. There are hundreds of posts made a day. Don’t worry if you don’t get an answer straight away.
When you start a new topic you have an option for which forum you want to post it to. Your choices are:
- Support – Get help with any problems/questions related to using WordPress.com
- Translations – This is the forum for the folks working to translate WordPress.com
All staff posts will have a dark blue bar under their profile picture that says “Staff”:
Our forums are a place where members of the WordPress.com community can help each other with their questions. To keep the forums friendly and helpful we have drawn up a WordPress.com Forums Community Standards that we expect all forum participants to abide by.
Tags help people find and contribute to your discussion. There are two ways to add a tag:
- When you first add a topic you have the option to add tags to the new topic form.
- For existing discussion topics you’ll find a Tags box in the right-hand column on every page. Just type in the tag you want to add, click the add button, and voila.
Some issues require staff member help. If you see or add a topic that you know needs staff intervention, you can add the modlook tag to the tags area of the topic to make sure we see it. You can add a modlook tag when starting a new topic, or add it to an existing topic.
If you have a paid upgrade, head over to our contact form and you’ll be able to put in a private support request that way.
Customers who have purchased a WordPress.com plan get access to dedicated support with our Happiness Engineers. Customers with a WordPress.com Premium, Business, or Commerce plan or the legacy Pro plan have access to live chat support.
We don’t provide phone support because many of the issues we discuss with users require frequent reference to web pages, which is much easier to do on live chat and email.
Spam is a violation of our forums code of conduct. If you see it you can add a tag that says ‘spammer’ to the topic, and another that says ‘modlook’ to make sure staff see the spam so we can remove it.
These forums are focused on helping WordPress.com users. Folks with a WordPress.org site can get help in the WordPress.org Support Forums.
Always! A community is only as good as its members, and new volunteers are always welcome. Take a look at our Volunteer Guidelines, and jump right in!
