The Hosting team regularly communicates about WordPress happenings in the #hosting channel, and sometimes collaborates on projects!
Here are some of the ongoing efforts:
WordPress Hosting Best Practices Handbook
The Hosting Handbook contains hosting recommendations for running WordPress. These were put together by the team and used as a basis for Site Health recommendations in WordPress. They’re meant both as a reference for folks learning to host WordPress, and a way to help WordPress and Hosts improve together.
How to Contribute
The next step for this project is an audit of the existing documentation, which is happening in this Github repo.
Feel free to either contribute directly there, or, to make more immediate changes, you can make recommendations in the hosting community Slack channel. After you’ve made a couple of edits, the team can connect you with access to edit directly!
WordPress Distributed Hosting Tests
The hosting team built tooling to make it possible for hosts to run the WordPress phpunit test suite on their own infrastructure, and report passing or failing tests. If tests fail on a host but not on WordPress.org, hosts are notified by email so that they can investigate.
How to Contribute
The next big steps for this project are to support automated updates of the test infrastructure on hosts and support of end to end tests.
If you’re interested in contributing, the two parts of the project can be found on Github, along with source and issues, and are open for pull requests:
- Test Runner (runs on host)
- API and Results Page (runs on WordPress.org)