Welcome to the home of the WordPress Sustainability Team!
We seek to embed sustainable practices into WordPress to ensure the longevity of the project.
To do so, we focus our efforts on the 3 pillars of sustainability:
Social: Finding ways to increase the diversity and wellbeing of the WordPress community.
Environmental: Reducing energy and waste consumption in the development and usage of the WordPress software and its community activities.
Economical: Finding ways to economically support contributions to the WordPress Project, for those who need it.
Get involved
We’re a new team, founded at WCEU 2023, and we are eager to welcome new members who are willing to help us make the WordPress Project into a leader in sustainability. Get started here!
Hi there! We’re so glad you’ve decided to join the WordPress Sustainability Team.
We are a very young team, founded at WCEU 2023, so we are eager to welcome new members to help us make the WordPress Project a leader in sustainability. There are so many ways to contribute!
Please take a moment to read this onboarding introduction in order to understand how you can start contributing to the team.
You can read our last posts, next SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. meeting agendas and previous Slack meeting chat summaries in our P2. Please, join in the discussions through the comments!
Now that you have an idea of the overall structure of the Sustainability Team, let’s make sure you’re set up to contribute to the team. You will need to set up the three following accounts:
The most important account you’ll use is a WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ account. This account is used to comment on the Sustainability Team blog and to create a Slack account (next step).
Do you already have a WordPress.org account? Then login here and you are ready for the next step.
Don’t have a WordPress.org account yet? Then you can create one by following one of these instructions (kindly created by other WordPress Teams and volunteers, thank you!):
After creating your account you will receive a “@chat.wordpress.org” username which means you do not have to share your personal email address with others in Slack. You can instead use the handle you choose.
In the Sustainability Team, we use GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ to track our ongoing projects.
If you don’t have a GitHub account yet, you can sign up for one here: Join GitHub.
Once you have set up your account, you can send your WordPress profile URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org to the Team Reps (eg via Slack) to ask for an invitation to our GitHub repo.
Our handbook is built using GitHub in this repository and is always growing.
You can contribute to this handbook by creating issues. You can also submit pull requests as you would normally do on GitHub.
If you’re not used to working with GitHub and you have access to our GitHub repo, you can also edit, or even add, pages there. Please refer to the readme file for more information.
