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A week with us: Recap of October’s contributor day and plans for WordPress 5.9

14 October 2021 Francesca Marano

This week, the team reports from the latest Contributor Day and continues to work on WordPress 5.9. We were also involved in a proposal to form a Performance team and contributed to different parts of Testing. There is never a dull moment for our team! Our weekly team updates On October 8th, the first Hybrid …

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A week with us: Recap of October’s contributor day and plans for WordPress 5.9


A week with us: Getting ready for contributor day

29 September 2021 Justin Ahinon

On October 8th, Yoast will organize another contributor day. Anyone who wants to contribute to WordPress is welcome to join! It will be a great opportunity to discover the world of contribution, or for the more experienced, to contribute to WordPress in a collaborative way. The registration for the contributor day is now open! It …

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A week with us: Getting ready for contributor day



A week with us: getting ready for WordPress 5.9

9 September 2021 | 2 Comments Francesca Marano

This week a lot of contributors to the WordPress open source project are coming back to work after the summer holidays. The WordPress Core team is busy, as usual, and excited to tackle yet another release of WordPress.org, which is shaping up to be exciting in multiple areas. Let’s see what everyone has worked on …

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A week with us: getting ready for WordPress 5.9



A week with us: Safe updates, plugin dependencies, themes, PHP 8.1, and more!

19 August 2021 Sergey Biryukov

During what might have seemed like another quiet summer week for the WordPress project in general, our team continued working on some long-requested projects. That included: safe plugin/theme updates, plugin dependencies, web fonts API, simplifying theme requirements for the WordPress.org Themes Directory, modernizing WordPress PHP unit test suite, and preparing for PHP 8.1. Read on …

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A week with us: Safe updates, plugin dependencies, themes, PHP 8.1, and more!

A week with us: Summertime is quiet… or is it?

5 August 2021 Francesca Marano

The end-of-Gregorian-year and summer holidays are quiet periods in the WordPress project. Whilst we are a global community, and not everyone has holidays simultaneously, things usually slow down a bit. We can tackle things that fell between the cracks or things that we left behind when things were more hectic. So, it turns out that …

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A week with us: Summertime is quiet… or is it?