A Noob's Journey to the Core

Ryan Welcher • @ryanwelcher • #WCTO
A N O O B ’ S J O U R N E Y TO
T H E C O R E
RYA N W E L C H E R

A B O U T M E
• Web Developer for over 10 years.
• Started using WordPress in 2009.
• Senior Web Engineer at 10up. We’re hiring!
• Noob Core Contributor.

C O N T R I B U TO R D AY

C O N T R I B U T I N G I S H A R D

R A M P I N G U P I S H A R D

W T F T R I F E C TA
Tech Trac
Community

M O T I VAT I O N

– M E
“WordPress is going to put my kids through
college”

WAY S TO C O N T R I B U T E

https://make.wordpress.org/

T E C H N I C A L

W O R D P R E S S R E P O S I TO RY
• WordPress core is stored in an SVN repo.
• By default you have read-only access.
• The structure is much different than what you
download from WordPress.org.

G E T T I N G T H E C O D E
• SVN
• svn co https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
• GIT mirror
• git clone git://develop.git.wordpress.org/
• git-svn
• GUI

VA RY I N G VA G R A N T VA G R A N T S
• Vagrant conﬁguration for WordPress development.
• Ideal for WordPress core development.
• “Turn Key” development environment.
• https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV

PAT C H F I L E S
• Text ﬁle containing the difference ( diff ) between your
local copy and the remote repository.
• Are attached to tickets in trac.
• Can be created via command line or GUI.
• Create them from the root of your local repository.
• Naming convention - ticket-number.diff

PAT C H F I L E S
svn diff > ~/Desktop/1337.diff
git diff --no-prefix > ~/Desktop/1337.diff

C O D E
• PHP 5.2 compatible.
• WordPress Coding Standards.
• Documentation Standards.

U N I T T E S T S

– @ W O N D E R B O Y M U S I C
“It’s easier to dive into someone else’s ticket
and review it for commit if Unit Tests are there
to show current behaviour and changed
behaviour”
U N I T T E S T S

T R A C

T R A C
• Open source software used to manage bugs and tasks
for WordPress core.
• Need an account at WordPress.org to play along.
• Has LOTS of different reports ( ticket groupings )
• Confusing as *%&!

F I N D I N G A T I C K E T
https://make.wordpress.org/core/reports/

G O O D F I R S T B U G S
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/good-first-bugs

Y O U R S T U F F

Ryan Welcher • @ryanwelcher • #WCTO • www.url.com/slides

• Defect (bug)
• Enchancement
• Feature Request
• Task (blessed)

C R E AT E A T I C K E T

A D D I N G A PAT C H

T H E C O M M U N I T Y

G E T I N V O LV E D

T I M I N G I S E V E RY T H I N G

L E N D A H A N D

M A K E F R I E N D S

B E PAT I E N T

S E L F A D V O C AT E

F R O N T L O A D E D E F F O RT

H AV E F U N !

T H A N K S !

L I N K S
• Trac - https://make.wordpress.org/core/reports/
• Slack - make.wordpress.org/chat/
• Core site - make.wordpress.org/core
• Handbook - make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/

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