It’s time for WordCamp WordCamps 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. US 2025! This year WCUS is in Portland, Oregon, USA on August 26-29, 2025, and the Hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Team is so excited to have a table at Contributor Day Contributor 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/. on the 26th! Contributor Day is an all day event kicking off the WordCamp conference, where contributors brainstorm ideas and collaborate on team projects to support the WordPress Open Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project. Folks can register to attend Contributor Day using this form.
At this year’s WCUS Contributor Day, the Hosting Team is honing in on PHPUnit testing software and Hosting Handbook improvements. Everyone is invited, whether you’re a new or seasoned contributor, here for a good time or a long time, are a software engineer or work in another arena: your contributions are welcome and valued!
Schedule
Here is the general schedule for WCUS 2025, with Contributor Day on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025. The Hosting Team Contributor Day schedule will be as follows:
- 08:00 Registration
- 09:00 Opening & welcome
- 09:30 Quick introductions
- 10:00 Start contributing!
- 11:45 Group photo
- 12:00 Lunch break
- 13:00 Back to contributing
- 16:00 Wrap-up & team summaries
How to Participate
To learn how to contribute to the Hosting Team, start by checking out the Hosting Handbook for details on the team and what it does. Folks will need a WordPress.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/ account, a Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, a GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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. account, and a computer with Git Git 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. and a text or code editing software – because the team maintains handbook and automated testing projects through GitHub.
Hop into the #hosting Slack channel at any time with any questions or comments, especially if you’re contributing remotely, and feel free to join the #contributor-day Slack channel too!
Join In Person:
For those attending WCUS Contributor Day in person, check-in starts at 8:30 am pst. If you’ve never contributed to WordPress, don’t worry, table leads can help you get started!
Join Remotely:
Can’t make it in person? No problem! Remote contributors are invited to join on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025, at 1600 UTC in the #hosting Slack channel. To let us know you’ve joined remotely, drop a comment on this WCUS 2025 Contributor Day Check In GitHub issue. Feel free to share if you are being sponsored or participate in the Five for the Future program, too!
Team Projects and Initiatives
This year, @Zunaid Amin (@zunaid321) and @jessibelle (@jessibelle) will be leading the Contributor Day Hosting table in person, and amykamala (@amykamala) remotely.
The team will be working on:
- WordPress Distributed Hosting Test Software Improvements
- Hosting Handbook Updates
- Advanced Administration Handbook Updates
WordPress Distributed Hosting Test Software Improvements
The Hosting Team maintains a PHPunit Test Runner and Reporter software that enables Web Hosts to test unreleased WordPress software updates on hosting platforms and report any conflicts, errors or issues that may need to be addressed. Many Hosts participate (thank you!) and Host Test Results are shared here.
The goal for this on Contributor Day is to make progress on testing software development; snag tickets, dig in on tooling improvements, and push, open, review, test and merge pull requests. The tickets available to work on can be found here:
Don’t code? Don’t worry! There are opportunities for everyone!
Handbook Updates
The Hosting Team maintains two handbooks: the WordPress Hosting Handbook and the Advanced Administration Handbook. Tickets to work on the handbooks are available here:
Anyone that speaks basic English can contribute to the Handbooks!
Workflow Protocols
To work on open tickets
1) Fork the repositories you wish to work on
2) Assign the issue to yourself in GitHub, and
3) Name your branch with the issue number, your name, and a ‘WCUS25’ prefix.
For example, if I want to work on Hosting Handbook issue #293, I’ll first hit the ‘assign yourself’ button on the upper right of the issue, make a new fork of the repo or sync my existing fork, git clone onto my local dev environment or git pull into main if there was anything to sync, and checkout a new branch from main with the name ‘WCUS25-293-amykamala’.
Learn how to install Git here, and some basic Git commands to get started!
Reviews
Once you’ve pushed your changes and opened a new pull request, tag some reviewers on the upper right of the PR. If you don’t know who to tag, feel free to tag @zunaid, @Jessfrick, @kittenkamala, @crixu, or @Chaion07.
If you’re reviewing work yourself, make sure you’re added as a reviewer on the upper right of the ticket, and comment on the PR with any feedback and a mention of WCUS CD 2025.
Testing and Merges
All PRs must have 2 approvals and be fully up to date with the base branch in order to be merged. Pay attention to the comments on your PRs in case follow up is needed!
Changes to the testing software must be tested on a hosting platform prior to being merged. If you’re doing testing make sure to comment on the PR with your findings, the hosting platform/specs, and don’t forget to mention in the comment that you tested during WCUS CD 2025.
See You There!
Contributor Days are always fun and inspiring, and it’s rewarding to build momentum on WordPress incentives as a community. The Hosting Team is happy to welcome contributors both new and experienced to collaborate and add value in your own unique ways, while helping move Hosting Team projects forward!
Please join us at WCUS 2025 Contributor Day On August 26th, 2025 to make WordPress hosting even better!
Can’t wait to see you there!
Thank you to @zunaid321 and @jessibelle for reviewing this post!
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