Content type: Handbook

  • GitHub

    This team has a GitHub, it has a few uses. Discussions: a way for longer form working through. Issues: a way to allocate specific tasks. All tasks should be agreed on by the team before being allocated into an assigned issue. Project board: once goals have been set these will be used along with milestones…

  • Communication

    Meetings The Core Program team on purpose do not currently have any sync meetings. All communication is done asynchronous within the Slack channel. Async communication There are several types of communication systems used by this team. All are expected to be async, even though some might not feel it. There should never be pressure to…

  • About

    The WordPress Core Program Team is focused on strengthening coordination across teams, improving efficiency and empowering contribution. It’s a home for those who span across product and project work.

  • Community Summits

    The Community Summits have a wealth of posts and notes to gather and learn from. This is a way to collect them and then look at what could be from those to support as part of this team and aligns with the ‘guide not lead’ principle. Posts https://communitysummit.wordcamp.org/2023/sessions/ https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/09/03/community-summit-discussion-notes-communication-and-collaboration-finding-your-way-around-wordpress/ Notes https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/09/15/community-summit-discussion-notes-increasing-contributor-recognition-and-celebration/ https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/09/06/community-summit-discussion-notes-iterating-on-the-team-rep-role/ https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/09/03/community-summit-discussion-notes-communication-and-collaboration-finding-your-way-around-wordpress/ https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/08/31/invisible-and-under-appreciated-bolstering-behind-the-scenes-contributions/ https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2023/08/23/community-summit-discussion-notes-ad-hoc-session-on-iterating-on-the-field-guide/…

  • Resources

    A collection of resources the Core Program team can gather and learn from.

  • Roadmaps

    This is a collection of each Core Project’s roadmaps as known so far. The following is a work in progress and collected from each team, not dictated to the teams. Where a roadmap, project board or milestones don’t exist yet, a post is used as a starting point. Project area Details Post(s) Project(s) / Milestone(s)…

  • Core Program Handbook

    Welcome to the Core Program Team Handbook, the place to learn how to get involved with the WordPress Core Program community, and start contributing to WordPress Core Program. Whether you’re an product manager, project manager, program manager, wrangler or just curious about program work, we’d love to have you involved as we shape the future of…

  • Monthly Hosting Team Updates

    The Hosting Team is publishing monthly updates to make.wordpress.org/hosting and https://make.wordpress.org/updates/ with the team activity currently measured in: Activity on the Hosting Tests GitHub Activities on Hosting Team maintained Repos As an example you can view the monthly update for July 2025, which was the first one published. In order to publish those reports you…

  • Contributing via Code

    When contributing code to the WordPress AI Team’s repositories, it’s important to ensure that all contributors are properly recognized for their work. If you have commit access to any of the AI Team’s repositories, please follow these best practices when merging pull requests: Use the Props Bot for Co-Author Credit The WordPress project uses a…