WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day Liveblog

Large crowd gathers for a group photo during WordCamp US 2024

Nearly three dozen groups/teams will gather for WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day. Below, you can find what each team intends to work on that day. We will update this page throughout the day with information about what the teams have been working on.

Team Plans

Community:

WCUS2024 Contributor Day: Community Team Agenda

MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.:

WordCamp US Contributor Day

Training:

WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day

AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

Table Lead: Amber Hinds / Joe Dolson

11:00 Update
- Dev side: pushing hard on regression in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ on screenreaders, starting to isolate what has changed. Bad one.
- Onboarded a couple new devs to get involved and do local setups. One patch confirmed as ready to commit for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. – issue #60369, shared with media team.
- Everyone else is doing theme review tasks – reviewing stuff in backlog.
3:00 Update
- Productive afternoon! Explored in depth five outstanding a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues, and while none reached definite resolution, they are well progressed.
- In the theme front, reviewed many themes.

CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress.

Table Lead: Brian Henry / Alain Schlesser

11:00 Update
- Everyone is onboarded and working issues
- 1 PR merged, 4 open and in review
- Bug fixes and documentation updates
3:00 Update
- 4 merged PRs, 4 open PRs
- Lots of discussion around database compatibility with latest MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. updates
- Detected dead code and over-complexity from WP CLI bootstrap that will be worked on
- Improvements to `wp config` command

Community

Table Lead: Kevin Cristiano / Taco Verdonschot

11:00 Update
- Exploring creative ways to promote and market WordPress events to attract new people. Roundtable discussion.
3:00 Update
- Working on building calendar datasources of holidays and national events to help avoiding conflicts.

Core

Table Lead: Joe McGill

11:00 Update
- Got several folks up and running on dev environments for the first time, active work on WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016., Perf, a11y improvements, folks troubleshooting getting started documentation, and the Fields APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. and dataviews. Lots of cross-pollination. Helping folks troubleshoot the process of getting started.
33:00 Update
- Getting started dox updates, helping many folks getting their local env set up, 12 commits to core, half dozen merges to Gutenberg trunk during contrib day.

Core Fields

Table Lead: Scott Kingsley Clark / Alex Standiford

11:00 Update
- Field of Dreams! Working towards a couple ideas, blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. bindings API ideas, dataviews – hoping to figure out what a potential core proposal would look like for a 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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. driven view, and block binding side, figuring out what we can do more on the PHP side – but needs more ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. wise than what PHP can necessarily offer. Also talking about integration with the bulk core edit component. Quickedit and Bulkedit.
3:00 Update
- We have a plan for the future! A complete grasp on dataviews and an area to contribute to – that being dataforms, which will be the new quickedit experience.
- Going to propose adding custom fields by registering the fields with the ability to show in quickedit.
- Bulkedit is also as an extension of quickedit, so it should largely pull through.

Core Performance

Table Lead: Adam Silverstein / Felix Arntz

11:00 Update
- Digging into existing issues, introducing new contributors to flows and options. One commit done already, closed out issues that were already resolved.
3:00 Update
- Looking into open issues.
- Closed a few tickets.
- Looking into improving the speed of the AVIF generator
4:30 Update

WordPress Coding StandardsWordPress Coding Standards The Accessibility, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc. coding standards as published in the WordPress Coding Standards Handbook. May also refer to The collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) used to format and validate PHP code developed for WordPress according to the PHP coding standards.

Table Lead: Rodrigo Primo

11:00 Update
- Working on adding docs for various sniffssniff A module for PHP Code Sniffer that analyzes code for a specific problem. Multiple stiffs are combined to create a PHPCS standard. The term is named because it detects code smells, similar to how a dog would "sniff" out food., one PR open for docs on a specific sniffsniff A module for PHP Code Sniffer that analyzes code for a specific problem. Multiple stiffs are combined to create a PHPCS standard. The term is named because it detects code smells, similar to how a dog would "sniff" out food., onboarding new folks – learning by writing docs! Six more PRs in the works!
3:00 Update
- Continuing morning – eight PRs created for docs.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Table Lead: Kristy Burgoine

11:00 Update
- Good conversations about where DEIB in WordPress is, lots of material to review to find out where to start and make some revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. to the main contributor handbook. Figuring out how to signup with Paradigm course form – 100 licenses?
3:00 Update
- Largely more of the same. Some questions for DEIB survey, turnout’s been quiet.

Design

Table Lead: Rich Tabor

11:00 Update
- Onboarded lots of new people, taking a look at UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing./UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. of Editing experience, finding areas of improvements, iterating after lunch on some ideas!
3:00 Update
- Taking a look at things discussed this morning and coming up with new ideas and proposals.

Docs

Table Lead: Leonardus Nugraha

11:00 Update
- Doing onboarding of new contributors – 8 new folks so far!
- Starting to look at a few issues, etc. End user documentation in 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/.
3:00 Update
- 12 issues moving forward,
- One of the significant ones is font library docs is ready for publishing!

GatherPress

Table Lead: Mike Auteri / Mervin Hernandez

11:00 Update
- Going really well! Full table, we’ve got some folks squashing some first bugs in the project, Mike and Mervin have spoken with Core and Meta about cross pollinations, updates to docs and website!
3:00 Update
- Two pushes to pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party today! Progress!

Hosting

Table Lead: Lucas Radke / Jason Nickerson

11:00 Update
- Closed two PRs on the Hosting Handbook, collaborating with Sustainability team to talk about the requirements / guidelines to have a sustainable hosting environment. Test environments, where energy is sourced, cutting down on burns, etc.
3:00 Update
- PR ready for new sustainability page on the hosting handbook!
- In cooperation with the core team merged long-existing pr for hosting test reporter
- 3 more issues closed from hosting handbook

Marketing – Showcase

Table Lead: Bernard Mayer / Emma Young

11:00 Update
- Not getting emails from 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/. signups – going to check in with Otto. Two or three people reviewing Showcase submissions for the first time! Others writing copy, adding approved submissions to write copy for. Six hoping to be ready to publish by EOD!
3:00 Update
- More content added to the GitHub in the afternoon, also a parallel impromptu marketing track across the hall for feasibility and progress across multiple teams.

Mobile

Team Lead: Jeremy Massel

11:00 Update
- Chatting about things to get issues in new editor! Webview as canvas for the editor, but other aspects in native views.
3:00 Update
Engaging with questions from attendees, no real functional changes.

Openverse

Table Lead: Zack Krida / Krystle Salazar / Madison Swain-Bowden

11:00 Update
- Several community contributions including an open PR, and a chat with the Wikimedia foundation for licensing and community management.
3:00 Update
- PR has been merged, and we identified an issue with our local analytics testing and front-end usability bug.

Photos

Table Lead: Michelle Frechette / Marcus Burnette

11:00 Update
- Wifi is too slow to do most things. Never had this problem in Asia, last year – I’ll see about Photography specific hotspot.
- Possible table leads access to more private network so ability to help organizing.
3:00 Update
- Moderating as many photos as possible

Playground

Table Lead: Antonio Sejas

11:00 Update
- Picked up Nate, onboarding new contributors, created two PRs and reported a new issue, and discussing a better name for Playground Blueprints. Want to get more feedback and input.
3:00 Update
- Introduced Playground to a half dozen new people, created five PRs, created groupings and blueprints to run WooCommerce, discovered GatherPress uses Playground as PR previewer. People from universities are finding new ways to use Playground in educational settings to develop and use WordPress.

Plugins

Table Lead: Evan Herman / also Chris Christoff

Evan got through about 58 plugin reviews, plus a bunch of follow-up reviews.
Chris discussed Plugin Check with plugin authors and collaborated with Meta team to get a status update on the deployment of Plugin Check to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The 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/

Polyglots

Table Lead: Marija and Roberta

Winged it without a table lead!
Translated close to 100 strings with Lithuanian and Latvian.
Promoted to table leads!

Security

Security team was not meeting today.

Support

Table Lead: Predrag Zdravkovic

11:00 Update
- Working through forums – unanswered questions, using support docs for contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. (which was useful!) – IRC is pretty quiet. Cherry picking a few to try together to learn on. Started plugging some questions into GPT and reviewing the response and helping the user learn how to fish in addition to helping them get to the answer. Debugging for users.
- Great mix of folks helping to answer questions – not primarily developers – but collaborating to learn how to come up with answers to get folks what they need to know.
Support group seemed to largely disperse in the afternoon?

Sustainability

Table Lead: Louise Towler

11:00 Update
- 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. Sustainability Page template
  - Looked at Drupal example (Barcelona)
  - Sponsor contest to evaluate green credentials
- Ubraca impact report
- Hosting team invited to contribute – went to talk about it.
  - Also went to fix WordPress subindexes on meta tables.

Test

Table Lead: Brian Alexander

11:00 Update
- Everyone’s started on something. Shared links for things to test in core and Gutenberg.
3:00 Update
- Folks working on tickets
  - WP dev
  - Gutenberg
- Testing
  - Local docker env
  - Playground

Themes

Table Lead: Jessica Lyschik / Tammie Lister

11:00 Update
- Going well! Already made PRs on 2025 repo, folks are testing. Making good progress!
3:00 Update
- Working mostly on the twenty-twenty-five theme.
- Making sure that all is translatable.

Training

Table Lead: Laura Adamonis / Kathryn Presner

11:00 Update
- <sent in slack>
3:00 Update
- Created a github issue
- Reviewed tutorials for deprecation
- Four new contributors!

Props to @georgestephanis and additional volunteers for help gathering the updates.

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