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The WordPress coreCore Core 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 bugbug A 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.
Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.
Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Andrea Fercia 1:09 pm on October 7, 2026
Tags: codingstandards ( 8 ), core-css ( 192 ), proposal ( 40 )

Proposal: Minor updates to the WordPress Core CSS Coding Standards

The purpose of this proposal is to introduce minor changes to the WordPress CSS Coding Standards required to integrate Stylelint into CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Please keep any feedback focused on the scope of these minor changes. On TracTrac An open source […]

Amy Kamala 12:40 am on October 7, 2026
Tags: 7.1 ( 68 ), 7.2 ( 21 ), agenda ( 1,150 ), core ( 757 ), dev chat ( 933 )

Dev Chat Agenda – October 7, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug […]

Aditya Dhade 4:28 pm on October 6, 2026
Tags: core-performance ( 152 ), hosting ( 57 ), performance ( 419 ), performance-chat ( 345 ), summary ( 981 )

Performance Chat Summary: 6 October 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 that prefetching has finally been committed in changeset 64120. The next step is to default script and style concatenation to […]

David Baumwald 1:12 pm on October 6, 2026
Tags: 7.1 ( 68 ), release ( 40 )

WordPress 7.2 Release Party Schedule

WordPress 7.2 is scheduled for release on December 8, 2026! Below is the proposed calendar with expected start times for each release party, and the release squad contributors involved in release parties for the upcoming 7.2 milestone. This release party schedule will stay in effect during the Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages […]

Aaron Jorbin 5:21 pm on October 2, 2026

Core Trac and GitHub Team Spring Cleaning (Southern Hemisphere edition)

Over the last few days, there have been a few actions taken on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. and in the WordPress GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied […]

Joe Fusco 5:11 pm on October 2, 2026
Tags: performance ( 419 ), presence-api ( 3 )

Presence API: What’s new

Since its announcement, the Presence API feature plugin has grown to show who’s working where across a whole multisite network, with post locks that leave the posts cache alone.

Copons 9:35 am on September 30, 2026
Tags: block-editor ( 144 ), core-editor ( 762 ), gutenberg ( 554 ), gutenberg-new ( 221 )

What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September)

“What’s new in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg […]

Amy Kamala 12:18 am on September 30, 2026
Tags: 7.1 ( 68 ), 7.2 ( 21 ), agenda ( 1,150 ), core ( 757 ), dev chat ( 933 )

Dev Chat Agenda – September 30, 2026

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer to additional items. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug […]

JuanMa Garrido 5:09 pm on September 25, 2026
Tags: contributor day ( 17 ), playground ( 5 ), WordCamp ( 9 )

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.2: One app for your first Core or Gutenberg contribution

TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much […]

Lance Willett 8:06 pm on September 24, 2026
Tags: trac ( 62 )

WordPress Trac MCP server

Ask your AI assistant about any 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/ TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software […]

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