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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
4:40 pm _on_ November 10, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #8](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/11/10/this-week-in-core-program-8/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

 * **Work done:**
    - Members of team also continued support in CoreCore Core is the set of software
      required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. AI 
      with myself and [@neel33](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neel33/) both focusing
      on 6.9.
    - Posted about [Q4 proposal for focus](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/11/07/proposal-q4-focuses-for-the-core-program-team/).
 * **Feedback wanted:**
    - Proposal on [Q4 focus](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/11/07/proposal-q4-focuses-for-the-core-program-team/).
 * **Looking forward: work planned this coming week**
    - Discovery into the roadmap for: [https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/).
      Now an [issue](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/11) to start
      piecing together what program can do to here.
    - Look at what can be learnt from the WP Credits team and distilled down to 
      tasks. Now an issue in [Github](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/7).
 * **SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/):**
   can be found in [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS).

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
11:44 am _on_ November 3, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #7](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/11/03/this-week-in-core-program-7/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

 * **Work done:**
    - Members of team also continued support in CoreCore Core is the set of software
      required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. AI 
      with myself and [@neel33](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neel33/) both focusing
      on 6.9.
    - Closed out all goal discussions for Q4. A post will be coming this week.
    - Documented how [proposals can work](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/processes/proposals/)
      including discovery issues and roadmaps.
 * **Feedback wanted:**
    - Recognising post still is open for input: [https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/26/recognising-contributors-work-discussion-notes-and-potential-opportunities/](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/26/recognising-contributors-work-discussion-notes-and-potential-opportunities/).
 * **Looking forward: work planned this coming week**
    - Discovery into the roadmap for: [https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/).
      Now an [issue](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/11) to start
      piecing together what program can do to here.
    - Look at what can be learnt from the WP Credits team and distilled down to 
      tasks. Now an issue in [Github](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/7).
    - Make an issue that surfaces the goals for Q4.
 * **SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/):**
   can be found in [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS).

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
9:20 am _on_ October 27, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #6](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/27/this-week-in-core-program-6/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

 * **Work done:**
    - A summary of the discussion went out on contributor recognition: [https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/26/recognising-contributors-work-discussion-notes-and-potential-opportunities/](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/26/recognising-contributors-work-discussion-notes-and-potential-opportunities/)
    - [@peiraisotta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peiraisotta/) invited learning
      about how the WP Credits team are doing onboarding to learn and maybe use 
      as a resource. Made into [issue](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/7).
    - Members of team also continued support in CoreCore Core is the set of software
      required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. AI 
      with myself and [@neel33](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neel33/) both focusing
      on 6.9.
    - Closed out [Goals for WordPress 6.9](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/5)
      so work can be done on it and made stubbed 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/](https://github.com/) issues for each.
 * **Feedback wanted:**
    - [Goals for Q4](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/4). (
      Will close this week)
    - [General goal collection](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/6)
      for beyond Q4 and wider focus. (Will close this week)
 * **Looking forward: work planned this coming week**
    - There is a call for developers and roadmap support on WordPress event tooling
      improvements: [https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/10/24/call-for-developers-wordpress-events-tooling-improvements/).
    - Look at what can be learnt from the WP Credits team and distilled down to 
      tasks. Now an issue in [Github](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/7).
    - Fill out the stubbed issues on goals for 6.9: [Noteworthy](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/8),
      [Punted list](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/10), [Iterations on docs](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/issues/9).
 * **SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/):**
   can be found in [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS).

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
3:46 pm _on_ October 20, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #5](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/20/this-week-in-core-program-5/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

This is a new briefer format to get the week started:

 * **Work done:**
    - PR added for [readme](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/pull/3).
    - [Discussions continued](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions):
      Goal discussions continued within repo began for [Q4](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/4),
      [WP 6.9](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/5) and a [more general](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/6).
      Note: the goals will be posted on this site once formed in discussions, they
      won’t only happen there or have decisions made there, however it’s easier 
      to start there than SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform
      [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its 
      own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/).
 * **Feedback wanted:**
    - [Goals for WordPress 6.9](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/5).
    - [Goals for Q4](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/4).
    - [General goal collection](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/6)
      for beyond Q4 and wider focus.
 * **Looking forward: work planned this coming week**
    - Post summary on contribution recognition discussions from Slack.
    - Post goals if enough discussion comes up.
 * **Slack:** can be found in [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS).

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention
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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
10:29 am _on_ October 13, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #4](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/13/this-week-in-core-program-4/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

This is a new briefer format to get the week started:

 * **Work done:**
    - There is a new repo with a [PR](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/pulls)
      on readme that is in [discussion](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/pull/1).
      Discover more in [handbook page](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/github/)
      what this repo is for.
    - [Discussions opened](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions):
      Goal discussions within repo began for [Q4](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/4),
      [WP 6.9](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/5) and a [more general](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/6).
      Note: the goals will be posted on this site once formed in discussions, they
      won’t only happen there or have decisions made there, however it’s easier 
      to start there than SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform
      [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its 
      own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/).
    - The handbook now have a number of new pages and updates:
       * [Communication](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/communication/):
         this is a new page outlining the initial process.
 * **Feedback wanted:**
    - [Goals for WordPress 6.9](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/5).
    - [Goals for Q4](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/4).
    - [General goal collection](https://github.com/WordPress/core-program/discussions/6)
      for beyond Q4 and wider focus.
 * **Looking forward: work planned this coming week**
    - Post summary on contribution recognition discussions from Slack.
    - Post goals if enough discussion comes up.
 * **Slack:** can be found in [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS).

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention
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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
9:18 am _on_ October 6, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #3](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/10/06/this-week-in-core-program-3/)󠁿

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what 
happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

As with any process on this team, please give feedback for anything you would like
to see improved, iterated or adjusted. This team is made better with each piece 
of feedback.

## SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform 󠀁[https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/)󠁿. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at 󠀁[https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)󠁿 happenings

These are focused on the [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
team Slack itself as a summary, wider work is called out in the next section.

 * Check-ins saw people focusing across AI and other areas this week. [#](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1759138865851539)

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention
in comments.

## Work done

 * Handbook page collating the [community summit topics](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/resources/community-summits/)
   that fall under this team and have been brought up so far.
 * Initial work on post summarising thoughts about recognising contribution. Props
   [@estelaris](https://profiles.wordpress.org/estelaris/) for supporting there.

Did you do something this week from this team? That’s awesome, please raise it up
in the comments of this post.

## Get involved

Things are just getting started but already there are some things you can help with:

 * No feedback is being looked for right now, but posts coming out this week on 
   make from Slack discussions last week.
 * The team itself can be joined at [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
   on Slack.

## Plans this week

These are the ones known about. As the team grows we can surface more people’s work
within these teams.

 * Continue the team [handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/).
    - Document communication practices.
    - Process community summit notes for potential goals.
 * Establish repo to bring in discussions and start to form goals.
 * Post summary on contribution recognition discussions from Slack.
 * A summary post on [paper cuts to flows in setting up teams, make sites and pledge pages](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758534008076569).

If you have any plans of things you are going to do please share them as a comment.

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
9:33 am _on_ September 29, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #2](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/09/29/this-week-in-core-program-2/)󠁿

Welcome to the second edition of this update. Each start of the week, there will
be a summary post for this team sharing what happened last week and setting out 
some plans for the week ahead.

As with any process on this team, please give feedback for anything you would like
to see improved, iterated or adjusted. This team is made better with each piece 
of feedback.

## SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform 󠀁[https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/)󠁿. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at 󠀁[https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)󠁿 happenings

These are focused on the [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
team Slack itself as a summary, wider work is called out in the next section.

 * We had a lot of people join us and say hi, which was great.
 * [@estelaris](https://profiles.wordpress.org/estelaris/) started a discussion 
   around recognising contributions, specifically how and what is a contribution,
   that is [continuing](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758549962333569).
 * There was a [discussion thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758534008076569)
   around paper cuts in team setup.
 * Several times Community Summit notes were shared in response to threads. This
   raised the point that these should be reviewed by this team for the points which
   could be actioned and learnt from.
 * [Core Importers](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758546026120239)
   was brought to the team as needing a maintainer, this was taken to coreCore Core
   is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds
   WordPress. to resolve. However, it’s worth noting the discovery here is some 
   areas might not need a maintainer.
 * [A roadmap](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758607621881629)
   was being sought for AI to help with workshops. This inspired the roadmap page
   in handbook.

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention
in comments.

## Work done

 * Pledges now show up for team.
 * Post looking for feedback around [Communication for team](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/09/27/proposal-team-communication-flows/).
 * A handbook page was begun to collect [Roadmaps](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/roadmaps/).

Did you do something this week from this team? That’s awesome, please raise it up
in the comments of this post.

## Get involved

Things are just getting started but already there are some things you can help with:

 * Feedback is being asked around [Communication for team](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/09/27/proposal-team-communication-flows/).
 * Feedback is being asked around [paper cuts to flows in setting up teams, make sites and pledge pages](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758534008076569).
 * The team itself can be joined at [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
   on Slack.

## Plans this week

These are the ones known about. As the team grows we can surface more people’s work
within these teams.

 * Continue the team [handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/program/handbook/).
    - Create a handbook page for Community Summit note collecting and sorting: this
      is specifically in response to how many have been shared so far as relevant
      to discussions.
    - Create a handbook page for ‘Resources’ that can include talks which might 
      be relevant around this team. Potentially put the Community Summit notes under
      this also.
    - Look at where [Guidelines for repo management](https://make.wordpress.org/project/2025/06/04/criteria-for-creating-or-migrating-repositories-under-the-wordpress-github-organization/)
      should live.
 * Summarise the feedback and take next steps on communication post.
    - Ensure if we do decide on repo it meets the guidelines [for management](https://make.wordpress.org/project/2025/06/04/criteria-for-creating-or-migrating-repositories-under-the-wordpress-github-organization/).

If you have any plans of things you are going to do please share them as a comment.

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/)
9:21 am _on_ September 22, 2025     
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# 󠀁[This week in Core Program #1](https://make.wordpress.org/program/2025/09/22/this-week-in-core-program-1/)󠁿

Each Monday (or as close as possible), a summary of what happened last week across
SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
and other communications will be posted here. The goal is simple, to make async 
communication and keeping up with this team easy and flow states improved as other
teams are contributed to.

As with any process on this team, please give feedback for anything you would like
to see improved, iterated or adjusted. This team is made better with each piece 
of feedback.

## Slack happenings

These are focused on the [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
team Slack itself as a summary, wider work is called out in the next section.

 * The new team was announced and got started by [welcoming everyone](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758013714110579)
   into Slack. Introductions were started as everyone got settled in
 * A thread was started around [communication patterns](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758017204066069)
   for the team. This will become a post (or posts) this week. In it the following
   were proposed:
    - Weekly async check-ins: starting on Monday and done within Slack.
    - Having a repo and project board to potentially also allow longer form discussions/
      ideas for the team.
    - To not have for now sync meetings unless requested.
    - For ideas around this make site and to find more voices that are doing this
      work to post on it.
    - To have very soon a list of goals for this team. However, being clear none
      are set yet.

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention
in comments.

## Work done

 * The [Core Program make site](https://make.wordpress.org/program/) saw a number
   of rapid fixes along the way to get it up and running. Including being able to
   subscribe.
 * Collaboration with the WP Credits team to give feedback on potential labels within
   the [a thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758036906566599)(
   and across multiple channels). Suggested using a label and learning from GSOC/
   Hacktoberfest. Will continue to collaborate where possible on this.
 * Documented how to [add a subscription](https://make.wordpress.org/meta/handbook/tutorials-guides/setting-up-new-make-sites/#enabling-subscribing)
   box to make sites (no documentation before).

Did you do something this week from this team? That’s awesome, please raise it up
in the comments of this post.

## Get involved

Things are just getting started but already there are some things you can help with:

 * The thread in Slack around the team’s proposed [communication ](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS/p1758018061587609?thread_ts=1758017204.066069&cid=C09EEAUJFQS)
   patterns is looking for feedback before being made into a post.
 * You can now sign up for email updates on this site using the subscribe option.
 * The team itself can be joined at [#core-program](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C09EEAUJFQS)
   on Slack.

## Plans this week

These are the ones known about. As the team grows we can surface more people’s work
within these teams.

 * Start the team handbook.
    - First section will be team communication and include the weekly post.
 * Finish setting up the make site for the team, including setting up the info section.
 * Post the Slack communication thread items on this make site for feedback before
   taking action.
 * Fix the hitches in the team not showing up yet for pledges and then find a place
   to document how to add a team for pledges (not documentation on this yet).

If you have any plans of things you are going to do please share them as a comment.

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