{"id":26,"date":"2022-07-22T05:50:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:49:51","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcome!<\/h2>\n<p>The WordPress <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Core<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Core<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/span> Performance Team is dedicated to monitoring, enhancing, and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem. We build and manage the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/performance-lab\/\">Performance Lab plugin<\/a>, a\u00a0collection of performance-related \u201cfeature projects\u201d for WordPress core.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Found a bug or have an idea for a new Performance Lab feature?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/performance\/issues\/new\/choose\">Create an issue<\/a> in our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/performance\">Performance Lab repo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Want to contribute?<\/strong> Get started quickly with our issues marked as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/performance\/labels\/Good%20First%20Issue\">good first issues<\/a> for new contributors or see all of our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/performance\/labels\/Needs%20Dev\">issues that need developer help<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are our priorities for this year?<\/strong> Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/roadmap-2024\/\">roadmap<\/a> to learn more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other questions?<\/strong> Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/handbook\/\">Handbook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Communication and Meetings<\/h2>\n<p>You can always find us in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/messages\/core-performance\/\">#core-performance<\/a><\/strong> channel in <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\">Slack<\/a>. Feel free to pop in and share your thoughts and ideas!<\/p>\n<p>We meet every week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/fixedtime.html?iso=20260922T1500\"><abbr class=\"date\" title=\"2026-09-22T15:00:00+00:00\">Tuesday 15:00 UTC<\/abbr><\/a> in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/messages\/core-performance\/\">#core-performance<\/a><\/strong>, alternating between office hours and bug scrubs.<\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! The WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Performance Team is dedicated to monitoring, enhancing, and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem. We build and manage the Performance Lab plugin, a\u00a0collection of performance-related \u201cfeature projects\u201d for WordPress core. Found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5911429,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","author-wordpressdotorg"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5911429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}