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 HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Tests
- GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. 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 need to have Administrator access to make.wordpress.orgWordPress.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//hosting and Editor access to make.wordpress.org/updates.
How to generate the reports
Activity on Hosting Tests
For Hosting Tests the team reports the newly shared reports by hosts for that month. This data can be gathered from the WordPress Backend of make.wordpress.org/hosting. The results page can be accessed directly https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/wp-admin/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=result&action=-1&m=202507, with having the last number being the year and month you want to get results for.
While on this page you can see the total amount of all published “posts” as number of all test results ever shared.
Last but not least the number of test reporters and recent activity can be retrieved from the WordPress Backend too. The number of recent active reporters can be counted on https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/test-results/.
GitHub Report
We prepared a script that collects stats from GitHub through the APIAPI An Application Programming Interface (API) is a computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries. It defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, etc. and outputs the table and the contributors. Right now the script is located in this repo.
Follow the readme, create your own .env file and run the script. Once it is finished it will output all the required stats in the report folder.
Publishing on make.wordpress.org
Once the data is collected go ahead and copy the report of last month from the WordPress Backend. Update all the data and dates and ask the team for a review before publishing.
The Crosspost to /updates won’t include the content of the post. In order to fix this you need to login to make.wordpress.org/updates and edit the post to add the content.
