Contributor Day Teams

Planning to join us for contributor day? We’ve put together a list of what you need to know about each team and how to prepare for the day. No matter what team you decide to participate with, you’ll need to have access to the Make WordPress Slack. Check out our post about Joining Make WordPress Slack to learn how.

Accessibility

The Accessibility Team provides accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress core and resources.

You can find the Accessibility team in the #accessibility channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Accessibility Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

People who can help with bugs and bug triage
Anyone willing to do testing
Anyone with accessibility knowledge as it pertains to the Internet
Those able to write tutorials, case studies, and demos
Those who can contribute to documentation and handbooks

Accessibility Team Resources

Accessibility Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

WP-CLI

WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites.

You can find the WP-CLI team in the #cli channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the WP-CLI Team?

This team is especially suited for:

Those with development skills
Those with CLI experience
Those wishing to learn and contribute to CLI

WP-CLI Team Resources

WP-CLI Handbook: Contributing

WP-CLI Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Community

If you’re interested in organizing an official WordPress event, whether it’s a meetup, WordCamp, do_action hackathon, or your own Contributor Day, the community team is a great place to get started. There are groups working to support events, to create outreach and mentorship programs, and generally support the community.

You can find the Community Team in the #community-team channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Community Team?

No code experience required! This team is well suited for:

Designers who can help create Internet materials
Those who want to help make documentation easier
Those with UX design experience
Those with a heart for community
Anyone who loves planning and being involved

Community Team Resources

Community Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Core

The Core Team makes WordPress. Whether you’re a seasoned PHP, HTML, JavaScript or CSS developer or are just learning to code, we’d love to have you on board. You can write code, fix bugs, debate decisions, and help with development.

You can find the Core Team in the #core channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Core Team?

This team is especially suited for:

Anyone interested in doing their first patch
Those with PHP skills
Those with JavaScript skills

Core Team Resources

Core Contributor Handbook
Installing VVV – We highly recommend attempting to set up a local development server before Contributor Day. If you’re not able to get this working on your own, someone can help you during the day.

Core Team Projects for Contributor Day

The Core Team is planning to work on auto-updates, and will be teaching others how to submit patches and pull requests. There will also be an opportunity to learn about the various Core Team Meetings and Slack channels, as well as learning how to write the devchat summary posts.

Core Performance

The core performance team is dedicated to monitoring, enhancing, and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem.

You can find the Core Performance Team in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

Core Team Resources

Core Performance Handbook
Installing VVV – We highly recommend attempting to set up a local development server before Contributor Day. If you’re not able to get this working on your own, someone can help you during the day.

Core Performance Team Projects for Contributor Day

The Core Team is planning to work on performance related core work with media, scripts, CSS, fonts, caching, and more.

Design

The design group is focused on the designing and developing the user interface. It’s a home for designers and UXers alike. There are regular discussions about mockups, design, and user testing.

You can find the Design Team in the #design channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Design Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

Anyone who loves to design
Anyone who knows how to code
Anyone who doesn’t know how to code

Design Team Resources

Design Team Handbook
Installing VVV – Some design projects require a local development environment. We highly recommend attempting to set up a local development server before Contributor Day. If you’re not able to get this working on your own, someone can help you during the day.

Design Team Projects for Contributor Day

The Design Team will be taking a look at coming up with concepts for the WordPress 6.1 about page, and perhaps hit some issues that may need design for 6.1

Documentation

Good documentation lets people help themselves when they get stuck. The docs team is responsible for creating documentation and is always on the look-out for writers. The blog has discussion around the team’s current projects.

You can find the Documentation Team in the #docs channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Documentation Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

People who like to help others
Those at every skill level
Developers who can write in both a highly technical way and also explain the technology for those who are less technical
Those with editing and proofreading skills
Those who collaborate well across teams

Documentation Team Resources

Documentation Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Hosting (Virtual Only)

We work to improve WordPress’ end-user experience across hosting environments through industry collaboration and user education.

If you want to contribute to the Hosting Team during Contributor Day, you’ll be working via Slack with their virtual table lead. You can find the Hosting Team in the #hosting-community channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Hosting Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for anyone with hosting experience or passion.

Hosting Team Resources

Hosting Team Handbook

Hosting Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Marketing

Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource for strategy and content for other WordPress teams.

You can find the Marketing Team in the #marketing channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Marketing Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

Copywriters
Those with social media experience
Those with research skills
Anyone with prior marketing experience

Marketing Team Resources

Marketing Team Handbook

Marketing Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Mobile

The mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps. Lend them your Java, Objective-C, or Swift skills. The team also needs designers, UX experts, and testers to give users a smooth experience on every device.

You can find the Mobile Team in the #mobile channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Mobile Team?

This team is especially suited for:

iOS – someone who knows Swift, Xcode, and Git
Android – those who know Git, Android Studio, Java, Kotlin, and Gradle

Mobile Team Resources

Mobile Team Handbook

Mobile Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Openverse (Virtual Only)

Openverse is a search engine for over 600 million creative works, all using GPL-compatible Creative Commons licenses. You can visit the project at wordpress.org/openverse to find the perfect free stock photos, images, and audio for your WordPress site.

Join contributors remotely in the #openverse channel to get started. The entire project is open source, and we have a number of ways you can contribute, from design to translations to code. Thank you!

If you want to contribute to the Openverse Team during Contributor Day, you’ll be working via Slack with their virtual table lead. You can find the Openverse Team in the #openverse channel in Slack.

Openverse Team Resources

Openverse Team Handbook

Openverse Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Photos

The Photo Directory team moderates every photo submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory, maintains and improves the directory site itself, and provides resources and documentation to educate, encourage, and facilitate photo contributors.

You can find the Photos Team in the #photos channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Photos Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

People who enjoy taking photos
Have a small amount of time to commit, but want to still contribute
Like to share your photos with others

Photos Team Resources

Photos Team Handbook

Photos Team Projects for Contributor Day

Getting folks set up to contribute to the directory and understanding the guidelines.
Having any moderators present moderate photos on the fly.
Photo Walk: There may be time during the day to go out and take photos in San Diego.

Polyglots

WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. If you’re a polyglot, help out by translating WordPress into your own language. You can also assist with creating the tools that make translations easier.

You can find the Polyglots Team in the #polyglots channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Polyglots Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for anyone speaking languages other than American English with a desire to help.

Polyglots Team Resources

Polyglots Team Handbook

Polyglots Team Projects for Contributor Day

During contributor days the Polyglots team usually focuses on two main objectives:

Onboarding new translation contributors.
Translating the most recent version of WordPress, plugins and themes. If more team reps and GTLs are present we also work on process improvement suggestions, documentation, etc.

Support

Answering a question in the support forums is one of the easiest ways to start contributing. Everyone knows the answer to something! This blog is the place for discussion of issues around support.

You can find the Support Team in the #forums channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Support Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

Anyone who can problem-solve in a helpful way
Those who can explain technical things in a non-technical way
Those with patience
Those interested in learning more about WordPress

Support Team Resources

Support Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Test

The Test team patrols flow across the entire WordPress ecosystem on every device we have at hand. We test, document, and report on the WordPress user experience. Through continuous dogfooding and visual records, we understand not only what is wrong, but also what is right. We immerse ourselves in the context of what we are making and champion user experience.

You can find the Test Team in the #core-test channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Test Team?

This team is especially suited for:

Developers
Designers
Anyone with coding experience

Test Team Resources

Test Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

Themes

The Theme Review Team reviews and approves every Theme submitted to the WordPress Theme repository. Reviewing Themes sharpens your own Theme development skills. You can help out and join the discussion on the blog.

You can find the Themes Team in the #themereview channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Themes Team?

This team is especially suited for:

Those interested in learning what goes into a WordPress theme
Those with experience reviewing themes
Those who have experience in finding bugs
Anyone who has created a theme before

Themes Team Resources

Themes Team Handbook: Become a Reviewer

Themes Team Projects for Contributor Day

In addition to reviewing themes for inclusion in the Theme Directory, the themes team also helps to create and maintain default themes as well as assisting with the adoption of Block Themes in the broader community. The Twenty Twenty Three theme is a block theme that will do everything that a theme should do in a minimal and unobtrusive way. What will set it apart from previous default themes will be a number of bundled “style variations” that will make it possible to change the look and feel of the theme simply by selecting from a number of community submitted style variations.

A call for submissions was made for style variations for the Twenty Twenty Three theme. These submissions will be curated and the selected designs will be included with WordPress 6.1. The contributor day focus for the Themes team at WCUS 2022 will be to review submissions and work toward converting submitted design concepts to variations as well as testing completed variations.

Some of what you we hope to accomplish:

Set up a local development environment with Twenty Twenty Three and the tools to create and test style variations.
A brief review of Block Themes and Style Variations
A review of accessing and navigating the Twenty Twenty Three GitHub Repository
Identifying variation submissions for further development
Creating Issues and participating in the discussion on specific variation submission issues in GitHub
Creating a new style variation either from submitted designs or as original contributions
Identify challenges faced in the process to share back to the core teams

Tide

Tide is a series of automated tests run against every plugin and theme in the directory and then displays PHP compatibility and test errors/warnings in the directory.

You can find the Tide Team in the #tide channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Tide Team?

This team is especially suited for:

Those with PHP knowledge
Those with Javascript skills
Anyone interested in learning about automated testing

Tide Team Resources

Tide Documentation

Tide Team Projects for Contributor Day

Will have ideally released a v1 on Node.js as well as integration with the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin. Team focus for the day will be testing the Tide service and plugin and identifying bugs and enhancement ideas as well as discussing with other teams (e.g., Plugin and Theme review teams, Performance team) ways to work together using the Tide service and infrastructure to help automate their processes.

Training

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org. If you enjoy teaching people how to use and build stuff for WordPress, immediately stop what you’re doing and join our team!

You can find the Training Team in the #training channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the Training Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for:

Anyone who likes to create
Anyone who enjoys teaching and sharing

Training Team Resources

Training Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.

TV (Virtual Only)

The TV team reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production and are responsible for the captioning and subtitling of published videos. Reviewing videos is a great way to learn about WordPress and help the community: experience is not required to get involved.

If you want to contribute to the TV Team during Contributor Day, you’ll be working via Slack with their virtual table lead. You can find the TV Team in the #wptv channel in Slack.

Who contributes to the TV Team?

No code experience required! This team is especially suited for anyone who would like to help! No special skills needed.

TV Team Resources

TV Team Handbook

TV Team Projects for Contributor Day

TBD – Please check back as we get closer to the event for more information.