Title: WordPress Codex Down? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # WordPress Codex Down? * [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/) * I was just wondering if anyone else was having problems with the codex today? It’s either been going really slow or more recently, thrown a 403 error message. Is the codex being updated? Thanks in advance! Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052522) * I realize this post might not be in the “proper” category so please feel free to move it. Thanks! * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052525) * It came back up. Hopefully, it will stay up as I was in the middle of a project! * On a side note, is there an offline version of the codex? I think it would be a good idea to have in case the online version ever goes down. * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052527) * They must be messing around with Codex (maybe upgrading it or something). * Don’t know of an offline version * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052531) * It’s back down again. I realize having an offline version would require more work seeing how the codex changes as WordPress does. I think it would be a good idea though to have for developers. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052534) * While I don’t necessarily disagree… keep in mind that the codex is a wiki that anyone can edit. Keeping an offline version up-to-date would be quite a challenge! * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052539) * I understand this which is why I think it would be a difficult task. Maybe having like a template tag reference list would be useful. Just the template tag and a easy example of how to use the tag. * [kaigou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaigou/) * (@kaigou) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052540) * It’s back down again. I get that offline versioning would be a nightmare, but what about a mirror, at least for the docs-section? Something that gets updated maybe once a week, and is noted as a simple static output for when the main site’s not available. Or a redirect that takes me there when I would otherwise hit the repeated 403-no-access error thing? * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052541) * If it is updated often, there should definately at least be a themed 403 message error. It does get a little annoying when seeing the standard 403 error message. * Maybe I should make a template tag cheat sheet. * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052542) * I’ve found a couple of good cheat sheets that you can view > [here](http://notaniche.com/wordpress-cheat-sheets/702/). * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052543) * Let’s bear in mind that the codex doesn’t go down all that often 🙂 * Since I usually know what page I want, I just go hit in google and then go to their cached copy at times like this. * For instance: [http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:hMPIqfNnT60J:codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password+wordpress+codex+password&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us](http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:hMPIqfNnT60J:codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password+wordpress+codex+password&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) * Thread Starter [hancoha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hancoha/) * (@hancoha) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052546) * I figured that it doesn’t go down to often but that doesn’t make it any less annoying when it actually does. * Thanks for the tip about page caching, that will probably come in handy! * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052570) * Codex was down for cleaning of spam infestation. Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘WordPress Codex Down?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 12 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-codex-down/#post-1052570) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics