Source: Make WordPress: Core Performance

  • Proposing a New Plugin for Performance Lab

    Do you have an idea for a new performance-related feature for WordPress core? Excellent! The Performance Lab plugin is a great way to implement and share the feature early on so that it can be tested on live sites and refined prior to an eventual WordPress core merge. The Performance Lab plugin refers users to…

  • Writing a Plugin for Performance Lab

    Once you have proposed a new plugin and there is consensus that it should be added to the Performance Lab project, you can add the code to the WordPress/performance repository on GitHub. This article outlines the requirements for such plugins. Plugin requirements Foundationally, the requirements for the performance team’s plugins are no different than for…

  • Releasing the Performance Lab Plugin

    This article describes how to publish a new release of the feature plugins in Performance Lab plugin suite. The following instructions will refer to $RELEASE_DATE as a variable containing the date of the release in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD). You can facilitate running the shell commands below by populating this environment variable with the next version…

  • Performance Lab

    The Performance Lab plugin is a collection of “feature projects” for WordPress Core that aim to improve performance in WordPress. These projects each are implemented as plugins themselves, and they are intended to eventually be merged into WordPress Core. As such, Performance Lab and its suite of plugins are considered beta testing plugins. Getting started…

  • Get Involved

    Getting started The Core Performance Team offers lots of ways to participate, and we’d love to have you join us! To start, we recommend that you: Create a WordPress.org user account or log in if you have one already. Sign up for an account on Slack using your WordPress.org user account and join the #core-performance…

  • X-post: Improvements to WP_Query performance in 6.1

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  • X-post: Multisite improvements in WordPress 6.1

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  • X-post: Performance improvements to the REST API

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  • X-post: Performance Field Guide for WordPress 6.1

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  • About the Team

    The WordPress Core Performance Team was established in 2021 and is dedicated to monitoring, enhancing, and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem. The Core Performance Team builds and manages the Performance Lab project, a collection of performance-related “feature projects” for WordPress core. Team Reps Our current team rep is Aditya Dhade (@b1ink0),…