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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Oh. I missed that Wordpress 7.0 launched yesterday?? Forgot to mention that I have WP Core performance contributors next week on the 23rd anniversary on WP, May 27th. Join @weston.ruter.net Adam Silverstein, Aditya Dhade and myself for ✨ SPDY STREAM 35 ✨ www.youtube.com/live/tFK9qZB...

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SPDY STREAM 035 with The WordPress Core Performance Team 🎂

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 09/04/2026

Time to do some in-person WordPress contribution! I'm a Table Lead at the Core Performance table alongside @b1ink0.bsky.social. #WCAsia

The Performance Team works to make WordPress faster and more efficient, improving loading speed, scalability, and real-world performance across millions of websites.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 09/04/2026

Time to do some in-person WordPress contribution! I'm a Table Lead at the Core Performance table. #WCAsia

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 08/04/2026

How I've just enabled Claude Code to access all abilities registered with the Abilities API via MCP in the wordpress-develop environment, in preparation for the WordCamp Asia (#WCAsia) Contributor Day tomorrow:

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Adding an MCP Server to the WordPress Core Development Environment - Weston Ruter

How I've enabled Claude Code to access all abilities registered with the Abilities API via MCP in the wordpress-develop environment.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 20/02/2026

We've started at rule level 0 to catch the most fundamental issues, but I'm looking forward to increasing the rule levels to catch more potential problems and make core even more robust: phpstan.org/user-guide/r...

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Rule Levels

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 20/02/2026

It's a big day for @wordpress.org core PHP contributors and the overall quality of the core codebase: PHPStan is now part of the core development workflow! Changeset: core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61...

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Changeset 61699 – WordPress Trac

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 20/01/2026

I’ve wanted this for a while: A way for the Post Date block in WordPress to automatically append the modified date, but only when it differs from the publish date. Finally published a writeup and a plugin to implement this:

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Post Date Block: Published & Modified - Weston Ruter

Development of a WordPress plugin which appends the modified date to the Post Date block when it is different from the published date.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 12/01/2026

If you're in PDX tomorrow (Jan. 13th), I'm sharing about web performance at our local WordPress Meetup, in person! I'm going over the perf work that landed in WordPress last year, how you can evaluate performance yourself, live side audits, and more: www.meetup.com/pdx-wp/event...

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Speeding Up Your WordPress Site with WordPress 6.9, Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

**In-Person MeetUp at the [NW Portland Hostel](https://www.nwportlandhostel.com/)**, 479 NW 18th Ave, Portland, 97209. The most recent release of WordPress includes many p

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 08/01/2026

“You may not know this, but I have not been sponsored by Google to contribute to WordPress since April 2025.” That was a very difficult point in time, wasn't it? 😭 Best wishes on the new chapter! I hope I'll have a work-related excuse to visit you in Austin this year! 🤠

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 17/12/2025

I used WordPress Playground for the first time in a support forum reply to try to reproduce a bug report. Super nice! I made a test plugin in a gist, within which I included a blueprint.json to self-install and set up the test case to repro with 1 click: wordpress.org/support/topi...

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WordPress 6.9 broke site layout

WordPress 6.9 broke site layout theinfoprovider (@theinfoprovider) 1 week, 6 days ago After the automatic update to WordPress 6.9 (and/or Gutenberg plugin 19.5), the entire front-end design of our …

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WordPress @wordpress.org · 02/12/2025

Meet WordPress 6.9 “Gene”. This release delivers collaboration with soul. Notes in the editor, smooth drag and drop, new creative blocks, and faster performance across your site. Discover what is new and upgrade today: wordpress.org/download/releas... #WordPress

Record image with Gene Harris. On the sleeve is an image of Gene with a stylized GENE font.

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Jonathan Desrosiers @jonathandesrosiers.com · 25/11/2025

I'm really excited for the @wordpress.org 6.9 release! There's. A. Ton. The field guide is now live, and it proves my point (it's a doozy). I'm looking forward to seeing the community build on top of the new Notes feature, which unlocks new ways to collaborate!

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WordPress 6.9 Field Guide

This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.9 and is published in the Release Candidate phase to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others. …

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The Repository @therepository.email · 21/11/2025

WordPress 6.9 to Bring Performance Gains With fetchpriority Support, Increased Inline CSS, and New Output Buffer

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WordPress @wordpress.org · 18/11/2025

WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2 is now available for testing. This vital milestone invites you to download and test the latest features that aim to enhance your experience. Your feedback is crucial for the final release! Ready to dive in? Get the release here: wp.me/pZhYe-526 #WordPress

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 18/11/2025

WordPress 6.9 includes so many performance improvements! Scripts with fetchpriority, increased inline CSS, minified theme styles, on demand block styles in classic themes, the template enhancement output buffer, and much more! Check out the field guide:

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WordPress 6.9 Frontend Performance Field Guide

This post is the latest in a series of updates focused on the performance improvements of major releases (see 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2). WordPress 6.9 is the second and final major rel…

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 15/11/2025

I also prototyped how to make this work reliably for async scripts via a single capturing load event listener on the document: github.com/westonruter/...

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 11/11/2025

I'm working on a Dev Note for all the performance improvements, but in the mean time here is a gist of what's included: gist.github.com/westonruter/...

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WordPress 6.9 Performance Improvments

WordPress 6.9 Performance Improvments. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 11/11/2025

Worked nights and weekends (and days) to get these performance improvements landed! Getting 6.9 out the door on December 2nd will be a great relief. Hoping for a >20% boost to Largest Contentful Paint for Christmas! 🎄

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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Big thanks to @weston.ruter.net for joining me on the ✨ SPDY STREAM 009 ✨ yesterday. Lots of details were shared about the progress on the #WordPress platform re: performance. This should edited for next week.

image of two developers during live stream. One is wearing a yellow cap. Both arena glasses and a dark top. One screen shows a page being shared that reads: the site speed frontier with performance lab and beyond.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 11/09/2025

I love this new post from Speed Kit. They divide up the 2.5-second “Good” threshold for LCP into two additional thresholds: Instant (300ms) and Fast (1000ms), while the current Good threshold becomes merely “OK”.

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Don’t Settle for “Good”: It Is Time for New LCP Thresholds | Speed Kit

We at Speed Kit are now extending Google's LCP thresholds in all our dashboards by adding two additional buckets to show more details for page loads faster than 2.5s.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 09/09/2025

I'm super excited to see all of this happen on Glisan ASAP! I can't wait for how these changes will improve pedestrian safety, facilitate cycling, and calm traffic to reduce the frequent speeding and racing that happens in these 10 blocks between 82nd and 92nd. And thank you, @pbotinfo.bsky.social!

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 03/09/2025

Just landed in WordPress trunk: scripts and script modules can be registered with a `fetchpriority` arg, and the Interactivity API script modules and comment-reply script use `low` by default. This can improve LCP by ~7% when the LCP element has an image: core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/60...

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Changeset 60704 – WordPress Trac

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 27/08/2025

I just presented “The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond” at WordCamp US. Shortly before my talk, I published a companion blog post that has 10x the information I had time to share, and I've just added an embed of the livestream: weston.ruter.net/2025/08/27/t... #WCUS

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The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond - Weston Ruter

Analysis of the LCP impact for optimizations featured by the Performance Lab plugin and proposed for WordPress core. Presented at WCUS 2025.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 22/08/2025

For intra-site navigations, I think speculation rules with moderate eagerness and prerendering is the much easier solution.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 22/08/2025

I'll check it out! Yeah, good point that a PWA can all but eliminate TTFB when using cache-first or stale-while-revalidate, but only for repeat visitors. But there is still the service worker startup cost since you can't use navigation preload.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 22/08/2025

My blog has reached a web performance milestone: It's now in CrUX for both mobile and desktop (at the origin level), and it passes the CWV assessment for each! But the web performance journey isn't over…

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Web Performance Milestone - Weston Ruter

My blog is now passing the CWV assessment on desktop and mobile in CrUX and has 100 in Lighthouse! But the web performance journey isn't over.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 10/08/2025

A script printed any other way (including in event handler attributes) will be blocked from execution since it could have been added due to an XSS exploit. These will appear as errors in the console.

Refused to execute inline script because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'nonce-9b539cfe47' 'unsafe-inline' 'strict-dynamic' https: http:". Note that 'unsafe-inline' is ignored if either a hash or nonce value is present in the source list.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 10/08/2025

To be compatible, themes and plugins must not print <script> tags directly. Instead, they must use the proper APIs: wp_enqueue_script(), wp_add_inline_script(), wp_localize_script(), wp_print_script_tag(), wp_print_inline_script_tag(), wp_enqueue_script_module() and the like.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 10/08/2025

I've published a new WordPress security plugin: Strict CSP. It helps mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the frontend and login screen (but not yet in the WP admin):

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Strict CSP

Enforces a Strict Content Security Policy on the frontend and login screen to help mitigate any XSS vulnerabilities.

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 31/07/2025

I just wish that the Gemini Code Assist plugin for JetBrains (PhpStorm) also automatically read from this .gemini/codestyle.md instead of requiring manual configuration of the prompt library in settings (i.e. copy the file contents and paste as the rules).

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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 31/07/2025

I've been enjoying Gemini Code Assist for GitHub. It is a very helpful AI code reviewer! I just learned it supports configuration via a .gemini/ directory, allowing you to provide a style guide. I've put together an initial one for my WordPress plugins: github.com/westonruter/...

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Introduce code style for Gemini Code Assist by westonruter · Pull Request #1 · westonruter/wp-plugin-template

I just learned that Gemini Code Assist for GitHub supports a .gemini directory which can be used for configuration. One of these configuration files is a styleguide.md. This PR introduces an initia...

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