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.
Before writing a single line of code, a first-time WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor typically needs to install 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/, Node.js, npm, Docker, configure everything correctly, and troubleshoot whatever breaks along the way. At in-person events, this alone can take hours — sometimes the full day.
The WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit aims to eliminate this friction entirely.
What is it?
The WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit is a desktop application (available for macOS, Windows, and Linux) that sets up a full WordPress core development environment with zero prerequisites.
You install it, choose a directory for wordpress-develop, click a button, and you have:
A cloned wordpress-develop repository
A running WordPress dev server
The ability to make code changes and generate a patchpatchA 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.
No Git, no Node.js, no npm, no Docker needed. Everything is bundled inside the application as JSJSJavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors./WASM, powered by WordPress Playground.
Clone wordpress-develop into a directory of your choice
Run npm install, npm run build, and npm run dev automatically
Start a WordPress dev server using Playground’s CLICLICommand Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress.
Make changes to core files directly
Generate a patch from your changes, ready to attach to a TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.
The entire toolchain — npm, Node, Git — runs as JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser.
https://www.javascript.com/WASM bundled with the app. There’s no terminal work required for the basic contributor workflow.
Here’s the full setup flow — from a fresh install to a running WordPress development environment:
Once your environment is running, generating a patch to submit to Trac takes just a few clicks:
Why this matters for Contributor Days
Environment setup has historically been one of the biggest drop-off points during Contributor Days. When participants can’t get set up in time, the session is over before it starts — regardless of their interest or motivation.
This tool makes it realistic to go from attendee to first patch in a single afternoon. It’s designed specifically for the Contributor Day context: fast setup, no prerequisites, no troubleshooting.
How to use it at your next Contributor Day
If you’re organizing or facilitating a core table at a WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.:
Share the download link with participants ahead of the event so they can install it at home on good WiFi (the app is a larger download).
Walk through the setup at the start of the session: install, click to set up the environment, make a small change, generate a patch.
Point participants to the Core Contributor Handbook for guidance on what to contribute and how once they’re set up.
Download and feedback
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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository and releases:https://github.com/WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env
The tool is experimental and under active development. Feedback is welcome via GitHub issues.
If you use this tool at a Contributor Day, please share how it went — either in the comments below or in the #core channel 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/. Reports from the field help prioritize improvements.
With WordPress Playground gradually becoming a larger part of our day-to-day lives as developers, it’s time to chat about what the project should look like going forward. There is a proposal for a v2 of the Blueprints schema, and we could use your feedback on current and future use of Playground.
So let’s have a casual conversation on what would benefit you as developers.
Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of whether it’s just to listen or actively participate. This session will be recorded and recapped here on the Make CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.blogblog(versus network, site).
As usual, Hallway Hangouts are conversational events where you, the WordPress community, can provide your feedback directly to contributors to WordPress. This feedback is invaluable in steering the direction of the overall project.
Agenda
On the whole, the biggest thing we want to accomplish with this event is to bring more awareness to the WordPress Playground project, which lets you experience WordPress directly from the browser (no complicated setup necessary). Give it a try →
With this goal in mind, @zieladam, the architect of Playground, and I would like to discuss:
The Playground Blueprints system and how it works
What existing features you find the most useful in your own work
What current features feel limiting
The missing features you’d like to see going forward
We hope that you all can join us and help shape the future of WordPress Playground.
WordPress Playground was recently used at a hackathon to prototype three different ways of building WordPress plugins with very little setup and directly in the browser:
WP-CLIWP-CLIWP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ and PHPUnit in the browser
WordPress as a VS Code extension
Mobile pluginPluginA 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. editor
WP-CLI and PHPUnit in the browser
The first demo brings popular WordPress terminal tools and a code editor into the browser:
A significant challenge was executing shell commands in the browser. Although various browser-based Linux implementations were explored, none fully addressed the issue or were feasible within the limited time frame. Consequently, basic commands like ls, cd, and cat were manually implemented, along with the exposure of wp-cli and phpunit.
By the end, many wp-cli commands were running, phpunit tests were functional (although not all passed), and the code editor updated live WordPress files – all while working offline.
WordPress dev server as a Visual Studio Code extension
The second demo is a WordPress development server that you can start without ever installing MySQLMySQLMySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com, PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher, or an ApacheApacheApache is the most widely used web server software. Developed and maintained by Apache Software Foundation. Apache is an Open Source software available for free. web server. It works as a Visual Studio Code extension:
The primary challenge was understanding the concept of running PHP inside JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser.
https://www.javascript.com, which differs from typical PHP or Node.js development. This VS Code extension provides a single-click development environment, potentially benefiting WordCamps, Learn.wp.org courses, and various workshops.
While this extension is highly experimental, it is publicly available in Visual Studio Marketplace for everyone to try. The code lives in a GitHub repository and is intended for migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. to the official WordPress Playground monorepo. If you have experience with VS code extensions and would like to help develop them, your help is most welcome!
Mobile editor
In the third demo, @gziolo and @zieladam explored a full WordPress IDEIDEIntegrated Development Environment. A software package that provides a full suite of functionality to software developers/programmers. Normally an IDE includes a source code editor, code-build tools and debugging functionality. in the browser. In the video you can see a GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. developed entirely in Stackblitz. It’s worth noting that Sandpack + WebContainers emerged as a suitable open-source alternative:
This setup allows for building WordPress blocks in the browser, on mobile devices, and even offline. Most npm packages are also supported. It’s believed that this could empower a vast number of new internet users to create within the WordPress ecosystem, even without a desktop device.
All of these projects are open for future contributions, and you are encouraged to get involved. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, on 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/, or join the #metaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-playground WordPress.orgslackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel.
Props to the following editors and co-creators of this post: @cbringmann, @annezazu
