Hello WordPress enthusiasts 👋
Tomorrow we head to Kraków. The Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Test Team is gearing up for Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe 2026, taking place 4 June 2026 at ICE Kraków – the official kick-off to WCEU.
Testing is one of the most welcoming doors into WordPress: you don’t need to write a line of code to make a real difference, and by the end of the day you’ll have touched software used by over 40% of the web. Whether it’s your first Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ or your fifteenth, there’s a seat for you at the Test table. Here’s what we’ve got planned and how to make the most of it.
🕰️ Schedule
All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST). Plan to arrive about an hour early to register and settle in.
- 8:30 – Registration
- 9:15 – Opening and welcome
- 10:00 – Contributing to WordPress
- 12:15 – Group photo
- 12:30 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Contributing to WordPress
- 16:30 – Team summaries and wrap-up
Joining from home? Remote contributors are just as welcome – find us in the #contributor-day and #core-test channels in Make WordPress Slack.
👩🏻💻 Meet the Test Team Table Leads
In-Person Table Leads:
Online (Remote) Table Lead
Anukasha will be on the ground in Kraków to welcome you and get you set up, while Nimesh holds down the digital table – coordinating remote contributors and answering questions in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ throughout the day. Other Test Team regulars will be dropping by in person and online to lend a hand.
🎯 What We’ll Work On
Our focus is meaningful, achievable contributions you can make real progress on in a few focused hours:
- Onboard new contributors. If you’ve never tested before, this is the place to start. We’ll walk you through your first test, your first triage, and your first reproduction – no prior experience needed.
- Test core tickets that need eyes. Pick up live work straight from Trac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.:
- Test the editor (Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/).
- Help test the new career functionality on WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. There’s an active call for testing (feedback open through June 25) for the refreshed jobs.wordpress.net and the new career fields on WordPress.org profiles – job history, key accomplishments, and an “open to work” toggle. Try the applying-for-jobs flow Flow is the path of screens and interactions taken to accomplish a task. It’s an experience vector. Flow is also a feeling. It’s being unselfconscious and in the zone. Flow is what happens when difficulties are removed and you are freed to pursue an activity without forming intentions. You just do it., browse candidates on the Jobs site, and leave feedback on the post or by opening an issue on GitHub.
- Find a bug? File it. A clear, reproducible report on Trac is a genuine contribution in itself.
- Improve the docs. Help sharpen the Test Team Handbook and testing guides so the next newcomer has an easier path than you did.
Bring whatever skills and curiosity you have – table leads and experienced contributors will help you find the right task. Everyone is welcome.
A gentle reminder: it’s Contributor Day, not Contribution Day. The goal is to find a meaningful way to contribute, not necessarily to land a finished patch by 16:30. Work you start tomorrow might wrap up next week – and that’s exactly how open source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. is meant to work.
🌐 Collaboration and Community
Contributor Day isn’t only about the work – it’s about the people. It’s a room full of contributors swapping ideas, helping each other unstick, and celebrating small wins together. For many of us, the connections made across the Test table are what keep us coming back year after year. Come for the testing, stay for the community.
If you’d like to keep contributing after Kraków, the Test Team meets every week in #core-test. You can find the full Test Team meeting schedule and upcoming meetings here: https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#test. Drop by any time to say hi, ask a question, or just lurk and learn.
🧰 Prepare at Home
A little setup the night before means you can dive straight into the fun stuff when you arrive. Spotty venue wifi is a fact of life, so get ahead of it:
🔗 Helpful Resources
👀 Looking Ahead
Every bug reproduced, every patch tested, and every report filed tomorrow ripples out to millions of sites. That’s the quiet power of testing: it’s unglamorous, it’s essential, and it’s how WordPress stays trustworthy release after release. We can’t wait to see what we build together in Kraków – and in Slack.
Not sure Test is the right fit? The Find Your Team tool can point you somewhere that clicks. But if you like the idea of being the person who catches the problem before a user ever does – you’ve found your table.
See you in Kraków! 💙
Props to @nimeshatxecurify for preparing and reviewing this post, and to @anukasha for the review of this post. 🙌
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