The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a bugbugA 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.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
This page gives you a clear guide on what you need to do in order to get started with contributing to WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Below you will find a list of items that need to be taken care of, with links leading to more specific tutorials on the individual steps.
Everything described here is recommended to efficiently contribute to WordPress core. Where possible, different choices are highlighted to leave enough flexibility to account for your typical workflows. If you are planning to join a contributor dayContributor DayContributor 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/. in the WordPress core team, following these steps in advance will ensure you maximize your outcome of that day since often-times several of them can be time-consuming during contributor days, particularly due to slow internet connections.
Communication in WordPress commonly happens either asynchronously on TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress., which is the issue tracker used by the project, or in live chat on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., which is a popular instant messaging service used by many organizations. Here is how you get access to these two tools:
Sign up for a wordpress.org account and complete the instructions. You may optionally sign up at gravatar.com with the same email address if you’d like to have a profile picture (recommended). This account can be used for all contributing activities.
In order to join the international WordPress Slack team and thus be able to participate in core team meetings and other discussions, you need to receive an invite. Visit the WordPress + Slack page while being logged in with your wordpress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ account, and click the link to receive the invite per email.
Via the email, log in to the Slack team. For email address, use {username}@chat.wordpress.org where {username} is your user name you picked for wordpress.org. If possible, pick the same username for Slack.
In order to contribute to WordPress core, you need a local development environment and a checkout of WordPress trunktrunkA directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision., which is the development version of WordPress. Be aware that this is not the same as the latest downloadable WordPress release.
Install a version controlversion controlA version control system keeps track of the source code and revisions to the source code. WordPress uses Subversion (SVN) for version control, with Git mirrors for most repositories. system to use for WordPress core. Here you have two options:
WordPress core by default uses Subversion (or SVNSVNSubversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase.) for version control, which works relatively similar to GitGitGit is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/., but is a little older. While most people prefer working with Git, the SVN commands you typically use when developing for WordPress core are trivial and almost the same as their Git counterparts. If you are using a local environment like VVV your environment may already have SVN pre-installed. If you are using another environment or prefer to also use SVN directly on your computer, there is a handbook tutorial guiding you through the process.
Alternatively, you can install Git from the Git project website. On many environments, for example VVV, you will already find it pre-installed. If you prefer using a visual UIUIUser interface in addition, feel free to use a client app such as Sourcetree, or GitHub Desktop (which works particularly well when used together with GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/).
Set up the development version of WordPress in your development environment. How you proceed depends on whether you decided to use SVN or Git for version control in the second step:
If you are cloning from GitHub and using the built-in Docker environment, you can run npm run env:start and npm run env:install from your WordPress Develop repository checkout to start a local server on localhost.