WordCamp Asia 2025 kicked off with an incredible Contributor Day, bringing together around 700 attendees to collaborate, share knowledge, and give back to WordPress. With 37 dedicated table leads guiding the way, contributors of all experience levels engaged in meaningful discussions, tackled important tasks, and made a lasting impact on the WordPress ecosystem.
Key Highlights from Contributor Day:
- Accessibility Team (Led by Nazmul Hasan Robin & Mumtahina Faguni) – 15+ participants worked on bug scrubs, focusing on WordPress 6.8 tickets. Suggested introducing an accessibility badge for plugins.
- Community Team (Led by Aditya Kane) – Updated the Community Handbook, vetted 5 event applications, scheduled 1 in-person orientation, onboarded 2 new participants from the Philippines and started mapping changes to their templates in HelpScout ticket replies.
- Core Team (Led by Adam Silverstein) – A group of contributors collaborated on fixing a bug that caused a fatal error when media was deleted if categories and post tags did not exist on the site. Two contributors worked on enabling vertical text editing in Gutenberg. Four contributors spent the day onboarding, learning how to find good bugs to work on, and uploading patches. Two contributors focused on ensuring consistent title case usage in WP Admin. The team also made two commits: one fixing an issue where full-size images were not output for PNG uploads, and another updating the quote pattern to use the quote block in the Twenty Twelve theme.
- Core Editor Team (Led by Isabel Brison) – Closed dozens of Gutenberg issues, improving the editing experience for users.
- Core Performance Team (Led by Mukesh Panchal) – Worked on improving WordPress performance across multiple areas.
- CLI Team (Led by Alain Schlesser) – Onboarded 7+ new contributors, with over 20 contributors in total.
- Design Team (Led by Ahmed Kabir Chaion) – A total number of 35 people participated both onsite and remotely. The onsite contributors created a design board, an exciting new initiative!
- Documentation Team (Led by Milana Cap, Leonardus Nugraha & Anand Upadhyay) – Milana invited everyone to enjoy cookies at the table while diving deep into documentation improvements.
- Hosting Team (Led by Wes Tatters & Zunaid Amin) – Hosted a live discussion between hosting providers and customers, with 2-3 new contributors joining the table.
- Marketing Team (Led by Emma Young & Satyam Vishwakarma) – 20+ participants, including 10 new contributors, learned how to contribute to WordPress marketing. Few of them contributed to the showcase and practiced how to create marketing strategy for WordCamps.
- Meta Team (Led by Steve Dufresne & Ren Chen) – Focused on improving the WordCamp organizing process.
- Patterns Team (Led by Chetan Prajapati) – 10 first-time contributors submitted a total of 7 new patterns.
- Photo Team (Led by Nilo Velez, Michelle Frechette & Mayank Kumar) – Taught attendees how to become photo moderators, with around 40 photos submitted.
- Plugins Team (Led by Paco Marchante, Ivan Kristianto & Benjamin Intal) – Over 20 contributors participated, teaching newcomers how to use internal tools. They also helped the MetaBox team change their author name.
- Polyglots Team (Led by Faisal Ahammad & Carl Alberto) – A total of 66 contributors, including 16 new contributors, translated over 4,000 strings. Check out the event stats here.
- Support Team (Led by Aditya Shah) – Provided valuable support to WordPress users through the forums.
- Test Team (Led by Krupa Nanda & Olga Gleckler) – Explored the power of WordPress Playground and its potential for testing and development.
- Themes Team (Led by Bijay Yadav & Ganga Kafle) – Reviewed new themes and successfully cleared the queue.
- Training Team (Led by Jamie Madden, Jagir Bahesh & Wes Theron) – Welcomed 12 new contributors, enhancing WordPress learning resources.
The Human Library
The Human Library was another standout feature of the day, with 16 expert “books” available to share their experiences. A total of 64 sessions were “borrowed”, making it a valuable initiative for first-time contributors and experienced community members alike.
Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2025 was a testament to the strength and passion of the WordPress community. Whether it was submitting new patterns, reviewing themes, improving documentation, or shaping marketing strategies, every contribution made a difference.
A huge thank you to all the contributors, table leads, and organizers who made this event a success! See you all next year for another exciting Contributor Day.
