A Noob's Journey to the Core

Ryan Welcher • @ryanwelcher • #WCTO

A N O O B ’ S J O U R N E Y T O T H E C O R E

R YA 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 T O 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 T O 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 T O R Y

• 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.

http://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

https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

git://develop.git.wordpress.org/

R E P O S T R U C T U R E


VA R Y 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

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


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 *%&!

http://WordPress.org


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

http://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 R Y 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 R T


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/

https://make.wordpress.org/core/reports/

http://make.wordpress.org/chat/

http://make.wordpress.org/core

handboohttps://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/

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