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👋 Welcome to the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Performance Team blog!

Because our work is so integrated with WordPress core, plugins, and themes, our blog posts are typically shared on those blogs instead of being posted here.

You can view all performance-related blog posts – including core feature and merge proposals, weekly chat agenda and meeting notes, and other discussions – by checking out our tags on those other blogs:

X-post: AI Guidelines for WordPress

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X-post: WordPress 6.9 Release Retrospective

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X-post: Proposal: 2026 Major Release Schedule

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X-post: Proposal: Clarifying Core’s Database Support Policy

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X-post: A Little (Late) Spring Cleaning

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X-post: The Incident Response Team is looking for new members

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X-post: AI Chat Agenda – 12 June 2025

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X-post: Introducing the AI Team – Hallway Hangout Recap

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X-post: Criteria for Creating or Migrating Repositories under the WordPress GitHub Organization

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X-post: Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about the new AI team

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