Aditya Dhade 5:09 pm on July 14, 2026
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Performance Chat Summary: 14 July 2026

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 a late submission for inclusion in WordPress 7.1 and requested reviews for PR #12514, which provides a mechanism for hosting providers to change the default Speculative Loading eagerness and mode without requiring an mu-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..
    • @swissspidy shared that CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. was a bit hesitant in the past to introduce new constants, let alone environment variables, and asked whether this is something hosts could control with an mu-plugin instead.
    • @westonruter replied that there is such an environment variable and constant for wp_get_environment_type().
    • @westonruter shared that configuration of Realtime Collaboration was also being done via environment variables.
    • @westonruter shared that the reason for the environment variable is explained in the Realtime Collaboration discussion, where a host may not be able to control all the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher being used in a hosted site and hosts could potentially control the PHP being used but may not “manage” their hosted WordPress sites, so doing so would be a violation of sorts of what their customers expect.

Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)

  • @westonruter shared that there are some new PRs that need reviewing, but has not had time to review them yet due to work on Core tickets and expressed hope that there would be more time available for reviews within the next week.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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