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…
[OBSOLETE WITH WP 6.9] Improves performance for the LCP metric by setting fetchpriority=low on script modules for the Interactivity API and on the comment-reply script. This implements https://core...
[OBSOLETE WITH WP 6.9] Prints script modules at wp_footer instead of at wp_head to improve performance by reducing network contention for the critical rendering path. Only relevant for block themes...
[OBSOLETE WITH WP 6.9]. Contribute to westonruter/layout-stabilized-video-block development by creating an account on GitHub.
Analysis of the LCP impact for optimizations featured by the Performance Lab plugin and proposed for WordPress core. Presented at WCUS 2025.
Celebrating the performance improvements in the latest release, and reflecting on the effort to make it happen.