WordCamp US 2025 contributor day is coming to Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, August 26, starting at 9:00 am, and ending at 5:00 pm. The Core team is responsible for building the core WordPress software and this is a great opportunity to contribute no matter how much experience you have with contributions.

Before you arrive

First, make sure you register for contributor day, have an account here on WordPress.org and have joined the Making WordPress Slack.

Next, you should get your local development environment setup. For contributions to Core, you can follow the steps in the WordPress Development Readme. You will be required to install the prerequisite software (Node.js, npm, Docker, and either Git or SVN). If you intend to focus your contributions to the editor, there is a getting started to contributing to Gutenberg which will walk you through the steps that have the same prerequisites.

What to expect at Contributor Day

The schedule for Contributor Day is kept up to date on the WordCamp US Website. As of 19 August it is as follows:

  • 8:00 am – Registration opens
  • 8:30 am – Doors Open – Mt Hood (Oregon Ballroom)
  • 9:00 am – Start time / Opening Remarks
  • 11:45 am – Group photo
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch
  • 1:30 pm – Teams resume
  • 4:30 pm – Team summaries and wrap-up (within the team)
  • 5:00 pm – Contributor Day ends

Some of the work that will done includes:

  • Getting tickets ready for 6.9. At 10:30am there will be an in-person scrub of tickets for 6.9 without an owner. @jorbin will host this at a table and will post in the #core room in slack where this will take place if you would like to join. If you don’t know what you want to work on, this is a great chance to find a ticket.
  • Improving Contributor Documentation. Reviewing and Identifying pages in the core handbook that can be improved. One specific page that would be good to improve is the trac overview page.
  • Coding, Testing, and Reviewing. If you have a pet ticket, this is a great opportunity to get some additional eyes on it. If you have an idea for an improvement, this is a great chance for you to discuss it with others that are passionate about WordPress.
  • See the committing process. @joemcgill will be reviewing (and hopefully committing) a patch and talking through the steps he takes.

Committers will be available to review and commit code throughout the day. You can ask in slack or approach @davidbaumwald or @jorbin, and they will try to find someone to review your code once you think it is ready.

For Committers

Please review the documentation below and remember at a contributor day you are strongly encouraged to commit someone else’s code, ideally, an attendee that is there working on a patch. If you are a new committer (or one that has only committed to github or svn), and you would like someone to help you make a commit, there are plenty of experienced committers (and maybe an emeritus or two) that will be there and would love to help you.

Attending Contributor Day as a Core Committer

Helpful Links

Props to @davidbaumwald and @desrosj for pre-publications review.

#contributor-day, #wcus

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