Performance Chat Summary: 24 February 2026

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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

• @westonruter shared a newly opened ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #64696 and noted that if real-time collaboration ends up disabling object caching for posts on the frontend, this would be a serious concern.
• @westonruter also shared that there are four other performance-focused tickets in the current milestone.
• @westonruter asked @pbearne about ticket #64087 and noted that it appeared related to PR #10898, which @pbearne had opened for ticket #64620.
  • @westonruter asked whether #64087 and #64620 were duplicates (or vice versa).
  • @pbearne responded that they look like duplicates and shared that the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. should fix both issues.
  • @westonruter replied that he asked the reporter of the other ticket to test the patch.

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 shared that a security issuesecurity issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the WordPress core code, and that you have determined can be used to gain some level of access to a site running WordPress that you should not have. had been responsibly disclosed for the Embed Optimizer plugin and that a fix was released the previous Friday.
• @westonruter also mentioned that there are several updates across the Performance Lab plugins that would be good to include in a new release.
  • @westonruter suggested targeting a release for Thursday and proposed wrapping up any issues and pull requests that are nearly ready before then.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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