WordPress Core Components

For the purposes of contributing, WordPress is organized into components. These are well-defined, functional areas of coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Many contributors take a particular interest in certain areas, whether it is maintaining the HTTP API or improving the Editor. Some components have sub-components like Shortcodes nested under Formatting, or Post Formats nested under Posts.

Many contributors help maintain one or more components. These maintainers are vital to keeping WordPress development running as smoothly as possible. They triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. new tickets, look after existing ones, spearhead or mentor tasks, pitch new ideas, curate roadmaps, and provide feedback to other contributors. Longtime maintainers with a deep understanding of particular areas of core are always seeking to mentor others to impart their knowledge. Read this post to learn more about the maintainer role: What does it mean to be a component maintainer? A refresher.

Want to help? Start following a component! Adjust your notifications here. Feel free to dig into any ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker..

ComponentTickets7 Days0 RepliesMaintainers
Administration395 +146 !!
Bootstrap/Load41
Build/Test Tools18418 !!
Bundled Theme216 +31 !!
Cache API524 !!
Comments19627 !!
Pings/Trackbacks283 !!
Cron API272 !!
Customize201 -115 !!
Database166 +151 !!
Date/Time42 -12 !!
Editor615 +4126 !!
Autosave189 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit43 +12 !!
TinyMCE3
Export4913 !!
External Libraries29 +11 !!
Feeds62 +26 !!
Filesystem API464 !!
Formatting218 +136 !!
Charset7 -1
Emoji10
Shortcodes5513 !!
General693 -1388 !!
Help/About17
HTML API16 +2
HTTP API4713 !!
I18N74 +24 !!
Import6110 !!
Interactivity API41 !!
Mail5316 !!
Media60424 !!
Embeds8819 !!
Gallery3412 !!
Upload7214 !!
Networks and Sites17329 !!
Options, Meta APIs14143 !!
Permalinks13429 !!
Canonical8414 !!
Rewrite Rules9324 !!
Plugins285 +147 !!
Posts, Post Types44392 !!
Post Formats123 !!
Post Thumbnails16 +13 !!
Revisions354 !!
Privacy1023 !!
Query25864 !!
REST API149 +424 !!
Application Passwords17 +1
Script Loader103 +131 !!
Security5511 !!
Site Health112 +38 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy251 -156 !!
Themes261 -132 !!
Menus185 -125 !!
Widgets18133 !!
Toolbar29 -1
Upgrade/Install273 +123 !!
Users29764 !!
Login and Registration148 +218 !!
Role/Capability7213 !!
XML-RPC32