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- The free WordPress user manual now exists in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German — all five are the complete 83-page WordPress 7.0 edition, all five are free.
- These are not machine-translated copies with English screenshots pasted in. Every screenshot was retaken on a WordPress install running in that language.
- Each translated edition adds an English-to-your-language glossary, because the WordPress community still talks in English even when your dashboard doesn't.
- Pick your language below, enter an email, and the download link arrives in a minute.
If you learn WordPress in a language other than English, you have almost certainly had this experience: you find a guide, it looks great, and then you get to step three and the screenshot says Appearance → Editor while your dashboard says Apariencia → Editor, or Design → Editor, or Apparence → Éditeur. You can usually work it out. But you're now doing two jobs at once — learning WordPress, and translating a guide about WordPress — and every one of those little mismatches is a place to lose your footing.
That's the problem we set out to fix. Our free WordPress manual is now published in five languages, and the translation goes all the way down to the screenshots.
The five editions
Every one of these is the complete 83-page manual for WordPress 7.0 — the block editor, the Site Editor, settings, media, users, plugins, updates and the new AI Connectors. Not a sample, not a summary. And every one is free.
- English — WordPress User Manual
- Español — Manual de WordPress en PDF
- Português — Manual do WordPress em PDF
- Français — Manuel WordPress en PDF
- Deutsch — WordPress-Handbuch als PDF
Why the screenshots are the whole point
WordPress itself is translated. When someone in Madrid or São Paulo or Lyon installs it, the admin area comes up in their language: the menu items, the buttons, the settings labels, the block names. Their dashboard genuinely does not look like the one in an English tutorial.
So a translated manual with English screenshots solves maybe half the problem. The prose is readable, but the pictures — the part a beginner actually navigates by — still don't match the screen. That's the version of "translated" that most free WordPress material offers, and it's why so many people give up on written guides and go looking for a video instead.
We rebuilt each edition on a real WordPress install set to that language, and recaptured every screen. When the Spanish manual shows you where to find Ajustes → Lectura, the picture next to it says Ajustes → Lectura. There's no mental translation step left.
WordPress lets each user pick their own admin language, independent of the site's. If your dashboard is in the wrong one, our guide to setting the default WordPress language walks through both settings — then grab the matching edition of the manual.
The glossary nobody warns you about
There's a second problem with learning WordPress in a translated dashboard, and it's the one people hit a few weeks in: the rest of the WordPress world still speaks English.
Plugin documentation is in English. Support forum threads are in English. The theme options your developer left behind are half-translated at best. So you learn the word entrada, and then every answer you find online says post. You learn ajustes, and the tutorial says settings.
Each translated edition ends with an English-to-your-language glossary of WordPress terms for exactly this reason — post/entrada, page/página, widget, permalink, and the rest of the vocabulary that stays stubbornly English no matter what your dashboard says. It's two pages, and it's the part readers tell us they keep going back to.
What's actually in the manual
The same table of contents in every language:
- Getting around the dashboard without worrying you'll break something
- Posts and pages, categories and tags — and when to use which
- Writing and laying out content in the block editor (Gutenberg)
- Menus, media, users and settings
- Installing and evaluating plugins and themes safely
- Updates, backups and the security basics that matter
- What's new in WordPress 7.0, including AI Connectors and the newer core blocks
It's written to be read straight through if you're starting out, or kept beside the keyboard as a reference if you're not.
How to get it
Open the page for your language from the list above, enter your email, and we'll send a personal download link. The link works for 48 hours and up to three downloads — if yours expires before you get to it, request a new one from the same page. There's no payment step and no card.
Every page also has a language switcher in the header, so if you'd rather read the French edition and send the German one to a colleague, you don't have to hunt for it.
What isn't translated (yet)
Honesty matters more here than marketing: the written manual is in five languages, but our video courses and live sessions are taught in English. If you're weighing the options, our guide to WordPress training online compares every format — free tutorials, video courses, interactive walkthroughs and live instruction — and the manual is a genuinely good starting point in any of the five languages while you decide.
If you want video training or live one-on-one sessions in Spanish, Portuguese, French or German, tell us which language. Enough requests in one language is how the next thing gets built — it's how these five editions happened in the first place.
Keep learning
- The full library of free WordPress tutorials
- WordPress PDF Manual — what's new in version 7.0
- Setting the default WordPress language
The WP Tutoring Unofficial WordPress Manual is an independent publication by ByRivers Tech LLC and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Automattic Inc., the WordPress Foundation, or the WordPress open-source project. WordPress® is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation.
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