Announcements

Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is next week, October 1
Performance Lab release 3.4.1 was published yesterday
The WordPress Performance Team is looking for feedback to streamline the onboarding experience of the Performance Lab pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. We would appreciate it if would you took 5 minutes of your time to set up the plugin and share your feedback.
- Use this link to install Performance Lab in a new Playground test environment: https://bit.ly/test-performance-lab. Simply click the “Install Now” button to get started. After activating some of the features, please share your feedback using this form: https://bit.ly/performance-lab-feedback

Priority Items

WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
- Current release (6.7)
- Future releases
Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)
- Next milestone
Active priority projects
- Project board

There are currently 19 performance issues in 6.7
To be discussed on tomorrow’s bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub

@mukesh27 Finally! The Modern Image Formats plugin now supports converting uploaded PNG files to AVIF or WebP formats
@mukesh27 While reviewing something related to Modern Image Formats, I came across an issue I had opened: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1560
@flixos90 I wanted to share https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1542 in here: This is a good first bug, so if anyone here is looking for a great way to get involved with contributing code, you may want to take a look at this issue!

@swissspidy I gave a talk about this last week at WCUS, which was a great success. Lots of positive feedback and interest in helping to contribute. Writing a blogblog (versus network, site) post now with details etc
- @joemcgill Once this effort gets past the initial experiments phase, I think it would benefit from more people being able to support Pascal in implementing some of these ideas. What do you think?
- @swissspidy Definitely 🙂 As soon as this is in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, more eyes are definitely helpful. But even now it can’t hurt to at least test the existing plugin and provide feedback

@flixos90 The Performance Lab feedback form did not receive any responses, so we will share requests for feedback on social media and other channels