WordPress Core Blog archives

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 …

All the team is very excited about our upcoming contributor day tomorrow. While registrations are already closed, you can still check the information about the day here. You will find all details about the schedule, the different tables as well as the table leads. Our weekly team updates Justin Using REST API in Core e2e …

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 …

This week, the team was planning for the final quarter of the year, which includes work on Core, Test, and Theme in the WordPress project. We were also preparing for the upcoming contributor day at Yoast. This time it will be open to guests from outside the company, so watch this space for an invitation! …

Our weekly team updates This week Sergey merged a PR that Ari created and worked on for a while, Carolina is back from her time off – while Justin is enjoying some rest – and Francesca enjoyed an in-person event. The team is getting ready for the final quarter of 2021, a thought that is …

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 …

This week, we have a different kind of article on our blog. Before becoming sponsored, full-time contributors at Yoast, we were all individual, volunteer contributors. This means we all worked on the open-source project in our spare time or sometimes by using our own billable hours to contribute. In this post, I’d like to share …

Our team has been focusing on many great projects, from improving documentation to making the themes directory better. But also improving plugin & theme updates and ensuring there are no problems with the next PHP versions. All these things take time and commitment, and we sometimes need to put our heads down and focus on …

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 …

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 …