WordCamp Rajshahi 2026 Contributor Day took place on July 2, 2026 at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET). It was amazing to see people joining both in person and on 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/.
At the table, Zunaid Amin (@zunaid321) hosted and ran the in-person discussions, with Md Rafiqul Islam (@rafiq91) as Co-Lead. Thank you everyone who joined, and shared their 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/ profiles. Good to have you all. 🚀
Most of the day went into two projects.
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. Handbook
We worked through several open pull requests, including the test runner updates and the OPcache guidance in PR #403. We also picked up the server A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers. compatibility docs for the next two releases, WordPress 7.0 (#393) and WordPress 7.1 (#397). On top of that, @zunaid321 spent time on the issue templates proposal (#83) and the minimum PHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. memory limit discussion (#45).
Advanced Administration Handbook
We reviewed a batch of open pull requests and moved a few articles closer to done. People pitched in wherever they were comfortable, from reviewing PRs to checking version numbers.
Tickets and PRs
Hosting Handbook:
- PR #402: reviewed.
- PR #403: OPcache guidance. One approval so far, needs a second before it can merge.
- PR #404: reviewed.
- Issue #393: WordPress 7.0 server compatibility, reviewed and discussed.
- Issue #397: WordPress 7.1 server compatibility. This one will use the corrected link format from #400 so it doesn’t bring back the hovercard regression.
- Issue #83: issue templates. @zunaid321 added input.
- Issue #45: minimum PHP memory limit. @zunaid321 added input.
Advanced Administration Handbook:
- Reviewed PR #495, #492, #491, #490, #489, #485, and #472.
- Commenting on these was open to prior contributors only. The heading case inconsistency (title case vs. sentence case) is noted for maintainers.
Contributors
Everyone who joined the Hosting Table, in alphabetical order:
Thanks to everyone who showed up, whether at the venue, dialing in, or dropping notes in Slack. It was a productive day for the handbooks, and a good group to spend it with. If you want to get involved, come find us in the #hosting channel on Slack.
Props to @chaion07 for reviewing this post.
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