Fellyph Cintra 9:23 am on December 17, 2025  

Playground meeting summary: December 12, 2025

This post summarizes the Playground meeting held on December 12, 2025, in the  #playground SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel

Announcements

WordPress 6.9 was released, and Playground supported testers and developers throughout the release process. At State of the Word 2025 on December 2nd, Matt Mullenweg highlighted Playground and recognized contributors for translating the documentation.

The team published several posts celebrating 2025:

Playground videos on WordPress.tv are now categorized and easier to find.

The project now has 49 contributors with Playground badges.

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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ updates

PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php.-WASM

  • Added smoke tests for proc_open in CI
  • Support for PHP 8.5
  • Removed static intl extension artifacts
  • Disabled profiling data file generation at runtime

Playground CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. Support for Intl is now included.

Documentation

  • Updated resources page with WordCampWordCamp 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. Wroclaw presentation
  • Removing references to github-proxy.com (service being discontinued)
  • New translations added in Portuguese and Japanese

Website Improvements to database administration and the Blueprints Editor.

Blueprints Added support for Intl.

Contributor updates

@zieladam is pairing with @bpayton to implement multiple workers by default in the Playground CLI to increase speed. Once shipped, multiple workers may also work in the browser with SharedArrayBuffer support.

@Fellyph met with the Brazilian community to collect feedback, update GitHub Proxy references, write content for non-technical users, organize Playground videos, and review translations.

@andr3ribeiro started contributing this month with internationalization work and plans to help with technical issues after completing translations.

@Beryldlg is returning to publish the French translations of the documentation next week.

Open floor discussion

Documentation translation workflow

@Beryldlg raised questions about automatic translations and requested a way to receive notifications when documentation changes. This would help translation teams review and improve automated translations.

The team discussed:

RSS feedRSS Feed RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndication which is a type of web feed which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. This is the feed. for documentation changes @zieladam created an RSS feed that refreshes daily to track documentation changes. @Fellyph Cintra will add this to the documentation.

Translation review process. The team agreed on a workflow where initial automated translations are published and improved over time. For accuracy:

  • Human translations will include a footer signature (like the French translations)
  • Automated translations will include a notice at the bottom
  • Contributors can add translator comments for content that needs review, such as:
    • <!-- Translators, this is accurate but it also will change pretty soon: -->
    • <!-- Translators, this may not be fully accurate yet: -->

@Fellyph Cintra will create a footer component to distinguish between translation types.

Next steps

If you need help contributing to Playground, reach out to @Fellyph. The next Playground meeting scheduled for the 26th of December will move to the 9th of January. Join the conversation at #playground Slack channel.