The Five for the Future program allows organizations to contribute resources to support the sustained growth of the WordPress project, ensuring the longevity of WordPress and open source while investing in their own success.
Take your seat at the table
Organizations that participate in Five for the Future play a key role in shaping the future of WordPress. Your contributions can translate that effort into a direct and meaningful impact on your business and beyond. Explore the Five for the Future handbook to learn more about the program.
Gain a strategic advantage
Sync your business objectives with WordPress’s development to stay current with platform trends, and get early insight into WordPress releases to inform your product decisions.
Recruit and develop top talent
Connect with a global network of professionals who already contribute to open source. By sponsoring their contributions, you’ll also provide existing teams with cost-effective, hands-on professional development opportunities.
Represent your and your client’s needs
Represent your customers’ or clients’ perspectives within the WordPress community. As you contribute and provide expertise, you’ll gain the recognition to influence key decisions.
Extend your expertise across WordPress
The WordPress project is uniquely set up to benefit from contributing teams across all disciplines. Along with development and technical expertise, here are some other focus areas your organization can contribute to:
- Community building and management
- Documentation
- Translation and localization
- Training and education
- Testing and QA
Discover all the contributing teams your company can get involved with as a Five for the Future participant.
Shape the future of WordPress
Become a Five for the Future participant.
Contributor experiences
Milana Cap
Sponsored by XWP
Milana Cap has been serving as a co-representative for the Documentation team since 2021. Driven by her advocacy for WordPress education.
Carolina Nymark
Sponsored by Yoast
Carolina Nymark is a developer and educator focusing on the block editor and themes. She is a bundled theme component maintainer and was the development lead for the default Twenty Twenty-One theme
Nadia Maya Ardiani
Sponsored by Hostinger
Nadia Maya Ardiani has contributed to the Training and Polyglots team, currently serving as the Indonesian Translation Coordinator for the Training team.