The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
Here’s some aggregate data for 2021 about WordPress CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Please note: it only include code contributions and it does not include contributions on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repositories like GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
The raw data for this post are on this public spreadsheet. You might find that easier to read if you have low vision or colorblindness; the graphics below are a snapshot pulled together to include as much information as possible in this blogpost.
General Trac overview
In 2021, the WordPress Core team shipped 1852 commits. 2797 tickets were opened, 2732 tickets were closed, and 408 were reopened.
Also, 2572 people contributed to WordPress source code using Trac, and 305 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core ♥️
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
Commits
62
175
110
97
142
286
174
175
103
57
327
144
1852
Tickets closed
236
315
372
147
182
355
248
210
157
88
271
151
2732
Tickets reopened
26
33
45
21
25
37
77
36
22
19
31
36
408
Tickets created
200
280
371
177
197
320
288
297
161
126
190
190
2797
New contributors
14
43
14
22
35
37
15
12
18
14
71
10
305
Contributors
120
229
165
117
280
400
154
132
156
90
555
174
2572
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Check out the Trac timeline in the graph below:
Here’s how many props and new contributors the Core project had per month. The most prolific month was November, in the WordPress 5.9 betaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. cycle, followed by June (WP 5.8 beta cycle).
Components activity
How did 2021’s commits break out by Core Component?
The most prolific components were:
Build/Test Tools with 310 commits (17% of all listed commits)
Docs with 198 commits (11% of all listed commits)
Editor with 188 commits (10.5% of all listed commits)
Bundled Themes with 144 commits (8% of all listed commits)
Coding Standards with 140 commits (8% of all listed commits)
Then comes Media, REST APIREST APIThe REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/., Code Modernization, External Librairies, Administration, Upgrade/Install, Site Health and Posts/Post Types. The other components each had fewer than 30 commits this year.
Data fetched from WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles
The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org. One caveat: usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, or that left blank their country/company information, filled in non-exploitable info got ignored. After all, “The Universe” or “The place to be” are not known countries 😆
Contributions by country
The next graph shows the number of props received by country. The top eight countries, based on the number of props received, are these:
United States with 1142 contributions
France with 266 contributions
Russia with 227 contributions
The Netherlands with 225 contributions
India with 219 contributions
Australia with 211 contributions
United Kingdom with 112 contributions
Canada with 102 contributions
Contributors (people) by country
In 2021, people from more than 56 countries contributed to WordPress Core.
The top eight countries by contributions, expressed as the number of props received, are:
United States with 155 people
India with 58 people
United Kingdom with 34 people
France with 26 people
Germany with 23 people
The Netherlands with 20 people
Canada with 16 people
Australia with 15 people
Contributions by company
In 2021, people from at least 236 companies contributed to WP Core.
These companies each contributed (well, their people did) to more than 50 commits:
Automattic with 785 contributions
Yoast with 379 contributions
Whodunit with 215 contributions
Advies en zo with 191 contributions
Bluehost with 146 contributions
Human Made with 131 contributions
Google with 87 contributions
iThemes with 73 contributions
Dekode Interaktiv with 52 contributions
Contributors (people) by company
The graph below is also interesting, because it shows that a huge number of companies have only one contributor—or a very few contributors. The exceptions are Automattic, with 85 core contributorsCore ContributorsCore contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. on Trac in 2021, Yoast (18 contributors) and 10up. Only those three companies had more than ten people credited on Trac in 2021.
What did 2021 hold for Core Committers?
33 Core Committers committed code to the WordPress SVNSVNSubversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repository this year:
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