This initiative started by Matt Mullenweg in April 2026 grants a trusted group of contributors 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/ sandbox access in order to make changes and improvements without “approval or feedback needed from any team, group, stakeholder, commenter, or approval from anyone but me (Matt).”
The goal is to move quickly, embrace experimentation, and rebuild WordPress.org into a world-class community hub that is as easy to contribute to as it is to consume from with a north star of the largest, most secure repository of free GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. code the world has ever seen, approachable to newcomers, rock-solid under the hood, and sovereign in identity.
Participants are encouraged to lean into AI tooling, explore tighter integration between WordPress.org and version-controlled workflows (SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/., GitGit 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. https://git-scm.com/, TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHubGitHub GitHub 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/), and pursue ambitious improvements across localization, on-boarding, pluginPlugin A 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./theme infrastructure, and event site lifecycle management. The only ask: post updates on Make blogs and in the public #meta-janitors channel on Slack so the community can stay in the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.
Contributors
The following contributors are currently serving as MetaMeta Meta 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. Janitors:
| Contributor | Focus Areas |
|---|---|
| @4thhubbard | |
| @annezazu | |
| @barry | |
| @dd32 | |
| @eugeneb222 | |
| @grierson | |
| @nacin | |
| @noel_tock | |
| @markjaquith | |
| @nickhamze | |
| @westonruter | |
| @yaniiliev |
