Performance Chat Summary: 22 April 2025

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WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

@spacedmonkey shared plans to land the following performance enhancements early in the cycle:
- #63021
- #58001 – @flixos90 noted intent to review this.
@spacedmonkey also proposed revisiting #59592
@flixos90 suggested some of these low-risk enhancements could be backported to 6.8.x.

No immediate updates or blockers were reported for the Performance Lab plugin suite.
@flixos90 shared that work is beginning on a new View Transitions feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. (issue #1963). This plugin aims to provide a WordPress-specific APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. for enabling cross-document view transitions.
- Development will start with a few experimental PRs, similar to the approach taken with the Web Worker Offloading plugin. A public release will only happen once an MVPMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia is ready.
- For those curious about the planned approach, @flixos90 pointed to an experimental PR opened against CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: wordpress-develop#8370, which will serve as the basis before being ported over to plugin form.

@flixos90 removed the milestone due dates from the performance plugin repo, following the team’s decision to move to an on-demand release schedule. Due dates will now be set only when a specific plugin release is planned.
@flixos90 shared an adapted GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Actions workflow originally created by @shyamgadde to bump the “Tested up to” version in readme.txt without triggering a full deployment. The updated version works for single-plugin repos and can be reused by most plugins on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. Example: bump-tested-up-to-dotorg.yml
- @flixos90 is planning to write a blogblog (versus network, site) post to promote the workflow.