Performance Chat Summary: 11 August 2026
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
WordPress Performance Trac tickets
- @b1ink0 asked whether there was anything the team would like to focus on for the WordPress 7.2 release, referencing the performance-focused Core Trac tickets.
- @westonruter said he would love to get script/style concatenation ripped out in favor of using preloads, which would be a big improvement to Core, especially from a tech debt perspective.
Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)
- @westonruter shared that he pushed out a security fix for Optimization Detective the previous week. That process brought to light a deficiency in the deploy script where it could inadvertently try to publish a release for an older version, so he opened PR #2620.
Open Floor
- @westonruter asked whether anyone else was planning to be at Contributor Day at WCUS on Sunday.
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
