WordPress Hosting Team Handbook

Welcome to the WordPress Hosting Handbook! Here you will find WordPress hosting best practice documentation developed collaboratively by the Hosting Team. Use the "Contents" menu on the left to navigate topics.

About the Hosting Team

Hosting Team members are typically professionals in the web hosting industry; system administrators, support technicians, software engineers, plugin developers, etc., who are invested in supporting a relationship between WordPress and WordPress web hosts.

The team’s goals and projects are focused on facilitating collaboration between the WordPress Open Source Project and Web Hosts, through distributed testing on hosting systems and documentation on best practices as applicable to hosting WordPress.

If you want to know more, feel free to take a look at our Get Involved page.

What is the WordPress Hosting Team?

The Hosting Team works to improve the WordPress user experience across hosting environments through user collaboration and education.

Everyone is welcome! This may include folks hosting WordPress, interested in learning more about hosting WordPress or folks working directly with WordPress hosts, such as System Engineers, System Architects, DevOps Engineers and Developers that are working on core, plugins, or themes.

When does the Hosting team meet?

The Hosting Team meets in the WordPress Slack, in the #hosting channel. The conversations are in English. Check out the WordPress Meeting calendar for the current schedule.

[info]If you’re interested in improving this handbook, check the Github Handbook repo, or leave a message in the #hosting channel of the official WordPress Slack.[/info]