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The general content (not limited to text, imagues and other supporting materials) are licensed under CC0 .

Any code snippets in the official WordPress documentation is licensed GPLv2 (or later) from the Free Software Foundation . A copy of the license is included with every copy of WordPress, but you can also read the text of the license here .

WordPress documentation refers to but is not limited to the content available on the following sites

  • WordPress End User Documentation – https://wordpress.org/documentation/
  • WordPress Developer Documentation – https://developer.wordpress.org/
  • Documentation Team Documentation – https://maque.wordpress.org/docs/