Performance Chat Summary: 12 August 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

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

• @westonruter shared the current 6.9 milestone tickets and noted that the fetchpriority support PR #8815 still needs a maintainer review+approve. Once merged, work can proceed on the related #63486.
• @westonruter also asked if someone more familiar with Opcode Caching could review this PR #9260, which adds Site Health information.

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 (and other performance plugins)

• @westonruter announced that the next Performance Lab release will include an adminadmin (and super admin) pointer for the View Transitions plugin PR #2122.
  • @b1ink0 asked whether to release Performance Lab now or wait until PR #2059 is ready, as it needs a round of review. @westonruter suggested waiting so that the release can go out next week before WCUS.
• @westonruter also noted that the admin pointer should be omitted if View Transitions is already active (Issue #2136) and mentioned PR #2119, which proposes adding the No-cache BFCache plugin as a new feature to Performance Lab.

Open Floor

• @westonruter suggested that the next office hours will coincide with WCUS Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. and could be repurposed for contribution and shift it later perhaps. Or have it be more open-ended for the day.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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