Whether you’re a developer, designer, writer, marketer, or simply a WordPress enthusiast, Contributor Day is for everyone. It’s your opportunity to collaborate, connect, and give back to the project we all love.
Your contributions matter. This day celebrates your skills, passion, and commitment.
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- Why Join?
- Save the Date & Register Now
- What is Contributor Day?
- What is Contributing?
- Why Should I Sign Up?
- What Can I Expect?
- Schedule
- Contributor Day Teams
Why Join?
- Meet amazing people from around the world.
- Make a real impact on an open-source project used by millions.
- Learn new skills, explore new areas, or deepen your expertise.
- Join meaningful conversations with like-minded contributors.
- Enjoy the community spirit and have fun while making a difference.
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Contributor Day
Basel, Switzerland
5 June 2025 – the official kick-off to WordCamp Europe 2025
Be part of the spirit that powers WordPress — we can’t wait to welcome you.
Note: Registration for Contributor Day is separate from Event Registration. You’ll need a ticket to the event to register for Contributor Day.
What is Contributor Day?
Contributor Day is a full-day event where WordPressers come together to contribute to the project in many different ways. Whether you’re a first-timer or an experienced contributor, everyone is welcome.
Yes, even one day of contribution can make a difference, and we’ll support you every step of the way.
What Can You Do on Contributor Day?
There’s something for everyone, including:
- Translate WordPress
- Fix bugs and test features
- Improve documentation
- Work on design, UX, or marketing
- Help support users
- Create or review photos and videos
- Support the WordPress community
It’s a great way to explore what interests you, build new skills, and be part of a global community.
New to Contributing? We’ve Got You Covered.
You don’t need to be a developer to contribute. On the day, you’ll find:
- Onboarding tables for beginners
- Friendly mentors
- People to guide you at every step
All you need is curiosity, time, and a willingness to learn.
What is Contributing?
Contributing to an open-source project like WordPress means getting involved in its growth, improvement, and sustainability. It’s about working together to improve WordPress, and the good news is that you don’t need to be a developer to contribute.
There are many ways to participate, whether you have technical skills or not. Every contribution counts.
Technical Contributions
If you enjoy working with code, design, or testing, you can:
- Test and report bugs in WordPress core, themes, or plugins
- Write and submit patches for bug fixes or new features
- Design or develop themes and plugins to share on WordPress.org
- Contribute to the WordPress mobile apps by improving code, testing, or enhancing user experience
Non-Technical Contributions
Not a developer? No problem — here are just a few ways you can help:
- Write or improve WordPress documentation
- Translate WordPress into your local language — including plugins, themes, and even subtitles for videos
- Help others in the WordPress support forums
- Create or update lesson plans and educational materials
- Promote WordPress through marketing initiatives and community outreach
- Take photos for the Openverse library or help curate them
- Organise local WordPress meetups and WordCamps
- Contribute ideas to help make WordPress more sustainable for the future
Whether you’re writing code, translating content, supporting users, or sharing ideas, you’re helping to shape the future of WordPress.
Why Should I Sign Up?
There are so many great reasons to join Contributor Day — but here are just a few to get you started:
1. Give Back to WordPress
If you use (and love!) WordPress, you already know it powers more than 43% of the web. What keeps it going? People like you.
WordPress exists and evolves because of its community of contributors. Your time, ideas, and skills help shape the platform millions rely on — and that’s something worth being part of.
2. Connect with Others
Contributor Day is a great opportunity to meet fellow WordPress enthusiasts, share ideas, and build lasting connections. Whether you’re looking to make friends or grow your professional network, this is the place.
3. Learn Something New
Use your existing skills in a meaningful way — or try out something completely different. With so many teams to join and areas to explore, it’s a perfect setting to learn, grow, and get inspired.
4. Make a Real Impact
Whether you’re contributing code, translating content, writing documentation, or brainstorming big ideas, your efforts make a real difference in the future of WordPress.
5. Have Fun!
Above all, Contributor Day is a high-energy, welcoming space full of passionate people. Come and experience the collaborative spirit that makes the WordPress community so special.
What Can I Expect?
New to Contributor Day? Don’t worry — you’re in good hands.
Experienced contributors will be there to support you every step of the way. Just look out for the friendly faces wearing green dot stickers — they’re there to answer questions, guide you through the day, and help you find your place in the contributor community.
And if you’re already experienced, consider giving back by “adopting” a newcomer. Your support can make a big difference.
Here’s What the Day Looks Like:
- A buzzing, high-energy atmosphere – Contributor Day is dynamic and collaborative, with people chatting, sharing, learning, and building together.
- Plenty of guidance – You’ll get the help you need to contribute confidently, no matter your background or experience.
- Flexible ways to get involved – You can stick to what you know or explore something completely new. Not enjoying the table you picked? You can switch anytime!
Whether it’s your first or fifth Contributor Day, expect a welcoming environment, meaningful work, and a fun experience that celebrates the power of open-source collaboration.
How can I prepare for Contributor Day?
- First of all, sign up for Contributor Day! (The form is at the bottom of this page.)
- Make sure to check your email inbox for pre-event information! Check your spam folder occasionally so you don’t miss out on any news from us.
- Create a wordpress.org account if you don’t have one already. This account can be used for all contributing activities.
- Create a gravatar.com account. If you’d like to use an image/avatar on your WordPress Profile go to gravatar.com and create an account using the same email.
- Join the international Make WordPress Slack workspace.
- For this, you need an invite, so while logged in with your wordpress.org account, visit the WordPress + Slack page and click the link to receive the invite via email.
- Log in to the Slack team from the email. For your email address, use {username}@chat.wordpress.org where {username} is the user name you picked for wordpress.org. If possible, pick the same username for Slack.
- Search for #contributor-day channel.
- If you don’t already use Slack, you can access it here.
- Get ready to plug in!
Schedule
- 08.30 Registration
- 09.15 Opening and welcome
- 10.00 Contributing to WordPress
- 12.15 Group photo
- 12.30 Lunch
- 14.00 Contributing to WordPress
- 16.30 Teams summaries and wrap-up
Please plan to arrive an hour before the event so you can register and mingle.
Contributing remotely
To know that you’re willing to join us even though you cannot make it to WordCamp is precious to us, thank you!
Location: See you in Slack, in the #contributor-day channel.
Date: 5 June 2024
Contributor Day Teams
When you register for the event, you can pick your team. Or you can choose it later. You can even pick it on the day; if need be, you can also course-correct on the day itself!
You’ll have a choice among these teams:
WordPress Coding Standards
TECHNICAL
Clean code is a guiding principle for good code. The WordPress Coding Standards help with that for all projects in the WP community, not just core! Here is your chance to help the Coding Standards!
Core
TECHNICAL
The core team contributes to the background code for WordPress.
Join this table to write new code, update existing code, or even fix bugs.
This is for you if you know PHP, HTML, JavaScript or CSS – there are tasks for all levels.
Design
CREATIVE, BEGGINER-FRIENDLY
The design group focuses on designing the user interface.
Join this table to work on mockups, design, and user testing. This is for you if you’re into design and UX.
Mobile
TECHNICAL
The mobile team builds the iOS / Android apps.
Join this table to write code, fix bugs, or help with design, UX, and testing.
This is for you if you know Java, Objective-C, or Swift (any level), or design, UX, and testing.
Accessibility
CREATIVE, BEGGINER-FRIENDLY
The a11y group provides accessibility expertise across the project.
Join this table to help make WordPress and all our resources accessible.
This is for you if you’re passionate (or even just interested) in accessibility.
Polyglots
GLOBAL/TRANSLATION, BEGINNER-FRIENDLY
WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages.
Join this table to help translate WordPress into your own language.
This is for you if you know other languages and have an interest in translation.
Support
COMMUNITY, BEGGINER-FRIENDLY
Answering a question in the support forums or IRC is one of the easiest ways to start contributing. Everyone knows the answer to something!
Join this table to lend a hand in the forums.
Documentation
WRITING
Good documentation lets people help themselves when they get stuck.
Join this group to help create or improve documentation.
This is for you if you have a knack for writing.
Themes
TECHNICAL
The Theme Team creates, reviews, and approves every theme submitted to the WordPress Theme repository.
Join this table to sharpen your own theme development skills.
Plugins
TECHNICAL
Join this table to keep up with the latest updates, find resources, and learn about any issues around Plugin development.
This is for you if you are a Plugin developer.
Community
COMMUNITY, BEGGINER-FRIENDLY
Join this table if you’re interested in organising a meetup or a WordCamp.
There are groups working to support events, to create outreach and training programs, and generally support the community.
Meta
TECHNICAL, ADVANCED
The Meta team makes the WordPress.org site, provides support, and builds tools for use by all the contributor groups.
Join this table if you want to help make WordPress.org better.
Other software: Docker, Composer, and Node/NPM. Experience with WP Env is helpful. Code editor like SublimeText or VSCode.
Training
WRITING, COMMUNITY
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to downloadable lesson plans for instructors via learn.wordpress.org.
This is for you if you enjoy teaching people how to use and build stuff for WordPress.
Test
TECHNICAL, BEGINNER-FRIENDLY
The Test team patrols the flow across the entire WordPress ecosystem on every device.
Join this table to test, document, and report on the WordPress user experience.
TV
CREATIVE, WRITING
The TV team reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv.
Join this table to work on video, captioning and subtitling of published videos.
Marketing
CREATIVE, COMMUNITY
The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors.
Join this table to help create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
CLI
TECHNICAL, ADVANCED
WP-CLI is the official command-line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites.
Join this table to help make the command line interact better with WordPress.
Hosting
TECHNICAL
The hosting team works to improve WordPress’ end-user experience across hosting environments.
Join this table if you’d like to help ensure WordPress works well on the most diverse sets of hosting stacks.
Tide
TECHNICAL
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.
Join this team to help ensure WordPress’s extra code base is tested better.
Openverse
TECHNICAL, CREATIVE
Openverse is a search engine for openly licensed media.
Join this table to help create new features and media types and develop WordPress integrations to share Openverse with the entire WordPress community.
Photos
CREATIVE, WRITING
The Photo Directory team moderates every photo submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory.
Join this table to work on improving the directory itself and provide resources and documentation to educate, encourage, and facilitate photo contributors.
Core Performance
TECHNICAL, ADVANCED
The core performance team is dedicated to monitoring, enhancing, and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem.
Join this table to help make WordPress core faster and more scalable.
- Performance Lab plugin
- Handbook
- Code editor like SublimeText or VSCode
Patterns
TECHNICAL
Add a beautiful, ready-to-go layout to any WordPress site with a simple copy/paste. WordPress block patterns are prebuilt combinations of blocks that you can alter as you wish. You can have a pattern that represents a complete webpage.
Multisite
TECHNICAL
WordPress Multisite is a feature of WordPress that enables you to create several instances of WordPress managed within one installation. You will be able to participate in discussions and coding sessions around WP Multisite.
Five for the Future
COMMUNITY
The Five for the Future program allows organisations to contribute time or sponsor resources to support the sustained growth of the WordPress project, ensuring the longevity of WordPress and open source while investing in their own success.
- https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/
- Gain a strategic advantage
- Recruit and develop top talent
- Represent your and your client’s needs
Sustainability
COMMUNITY, WRITING
The sustainability team is focused on future-proofing the WordPress project by working on the 3 pillars of sustainability:
- Economical: Finding ways to economically support contributions to the WordPress Project, for those who need it.
- Social: Finding ways to increase the diversity and well-being of the WordPress community.
- Environmental: Reducing energy and waste consumption in the development, usage, and community activities of WordPress software.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Working Group
The DEIB Working Group is committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within the WordPress community. We work on various initiatives, from outreach and training to policy development and community support. Our work is guided by the collective input and participation of community members who share our commitment to these values.