Source: Make WordPress: Core Performance

  • X-post: Criteria for Creating or Migrating Repositories under the WordPress GitHub Organization

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  • Core performance tests

    For every commit to WordPress core, as well as for every pull request (PR) on GitHub, a suite of performance tests gathers important metrics such as Server-Timing values and Web Vitals. This way, potential performance regressions can be spotted early and reliably. These tests build the current version/commit of WordPress and open a site with…

  • Core release benchmarks

    To run benchmarks comparing one WordPress release with another, you need to set up a fork of https://github.com/swissspidy/compare-wp-performance in your own GitHub account (or ask for collaborator access). Follow these steps to run the benchmarks for a WordPress Core release: Ensure your fork is up to date with the latest main branch from https://github.com/swissspidy/compare-wp-performance. In…

  • The Performance Lead Role

    Since WordPress 6.2, every WordPress Core release has had one or two Performance Leads as part of the WordPress Release Team Squad. This is a critical role to ensure that each release is on track to achieving or maintaining solid performance, and to highlight performance updates or concerns with the other members of the release…

  • Introducing Core Performance Team Reps for 2025

    Now that the nominations process and vote for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Performance Team Reps has concluded, I’m pleased to announce @b1ink0 and @shyamgadde as the new Core Performance Team Reps for 2025. About our new Team Reps Aditya Dhade Aditya Dhade is a…

  • Core Performance Team Reps for 2025: Submit Your Votes

    With the Core Performance Team Reps call for nominations now closed, it’s time for voting! The two Team Reps elected will replace @clarkeemily and myself (@flixos90) in these roles. You can find the poll below. Since we’re aiming to elect two reps, you can vote for up to two people. About the Team RepTeam Rep…

  • Core Performance Team Rep nominations for 2025

    This post kicks off the formal election process with a call for nominations for the 2025 CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Performance Team Reps. For about 2 years, Emily Clarke (@clarkeemily) and Felix Arntz (@flixos90) have served as the elected Core Performance Team…

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  • Releasing a Standalone Plugin

    The WordPress/performance GitHub repository is used to develop and maintain several standalone plugins with distinct performance features. Similar to releasing the Performance Lab plugin which references the other plugins, these standalone plugins also require regular releases. This documentation is largely obsolete. Normal releases of the plugins in Performance Lab should now follow Releasing the Performance…