{"id":484,"date":"2026-01-28T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/playground\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:33:02","slug":"wordpress-playground-team-meeting-summary-january-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/playground\/2026\/01\/28\/wordpress-playground-team-meeting-summary-january-23-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Playground Team Meeting Summary: January 23, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facilitator:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/fellyph\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>fellyph<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">The Playground team held its weekly meeting on January 23, 2026, in the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/playground\" target=\"_blank\">#playground<\/a>\u00a0<span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Slack<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Slack<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">https:\/\/slack.com\/<\/a>. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\">https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> channel<\/span>. Here\u2019s a summary of the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>PHP<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>PHP<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/preface.php\">https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/preface.php<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> version support update:<\/strong> WordPress Playground has dropped support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3. While this change is scheduled for WordPress 7.0, Playground has implemented it early. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/playground\/2026\/01\/16\/wordpress-playground-removes-support-for-php-7-2-and-7-3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"474\">Playground blog<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI agent skills:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/bpayton\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>bpayton<\/a> has created an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/agent-skills\">Agent Skill<\/a> for testing WordPress applications on Playground. An announcement post is in progress. The team encourages community testing and contributions. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Automattic\/agent-skills\">Automattic has released a set of Agent Skills<\/a>, including one for Playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Newsletter:<\/strong> The Playground blog now offers a newsletter subscription. Sign up via the form on the blog <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>sidebar<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Sidebar<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.<\/span><\/span><\/span> to receive updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contributors:<\/strong> The Playground project now has 53 members with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.github.io\/wordpress-playground\/contributing\/contributor-badge\">Playground Contributor Badge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Translations:<\/strong> Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/noruzzaman\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>noruzzaman<\/a> for submitting Bengali pages and <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/b\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>B<\/a>\u00e9ryl for reviewing French translations. Contact <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/fellyph\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>fellyph<\/a> if you want to get involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Updates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Personal Playground:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/akirk\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>akirk<\/a> is developing Personal Playground, a new feature currently in review. Feedback is welcome on the PR.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PHP synchronous connect():<\/strong> A PR simplifies connection logic for Asyncify builds by replacing asynchronous approaches with synchronous connections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Node.js upgrade:<\/strong> The project has upgraded from Node.js 20 to 22, enabling package updates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Agent documentation:<\/strong> The project has added a CLAUDE.md file. The team discussed renaming it to <code>AGENTS.md<\/code> for broader compatibility with tools like Gemini <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>CLI<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>CLI<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Cursor, and Copilot. The proposed solution is to use <code>AGENTS.md<\/code> as the main file with <code>CLAUDE.md<\/code> referencing it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Image optimization:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/fellyph\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>fellyph<\/a> updated all PNG images in the documentation to WebP, reducing image sizes by 78%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updates from Contributors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/zieladam\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>zieladam<\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Helping <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/akirk\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>akirk<\/a> review and merge the \u201cMy WordPress\u201d project before February. Shipped Redis and Memcached extensions and added native <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>DNS<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>DNS<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website\u2019s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252).<\/span><\/span><\/span> resolution for the JSPI Node.js flavor of Playground.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/fellyph\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>fellyph<\/a>:<\/strong> Working on <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>CSS<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>CSS<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.<\/span><\/span><\/span> improvements and CSS tokens for the Playground website. Created a PR to add translation credit footers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/bph\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>bph<\/a>:<\/strong> Published two blog posts for theme developers:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/\">How to Build an Interactive WordPress Theme Demo with Playground Blueprints<\/a> (<span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>WordPress.com<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>WordPress.com<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content.  WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> blog)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.com\/blog\/\">Streamlining block theme development with WordPress Playground and GitHub<\/a> (Developer blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/bpayton\/\" class=\"mention\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>bpayton<\/a>:<\/strong> Working on stabilizing the experimental multi-workers feature to remove the \u201cexperimental\u201d flag and improve default performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Floor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team briefly discussed CSS tokens and whether anyone has used the CSS tokens from <code>@wordpress\/theme<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next Playground meeting is scheduled for the 13th of February 2026. Join the conversation at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/playground\">#playground<\/a>\u00a0Slack\u00a0channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o2-appended-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/playground\/tag\/meeting\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>meeting<\/a><\/p><nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/login.wordpress.org\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fplayground%2F2026%2F01%2F28%2Fwordpress-playground-team-meeting-summary-january-23-2026%2F%23respond&#038;locale=en_US\" title=\"Login to Reply\"  class=\"genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"login-to-reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Login to Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilitator: @fellyph The Playground team held its weekly meeting on January 23, 2026, in the\u00a0 #playground\u00a0SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https:\/\/slack.com\/. 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