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
Administration388 +348 !!
Bootstrap/Load50 -1
Build/Test Tools24028 !!
Bundled Theme210 +42 !!
Cache API465 !!
Comments19628 !!
Pings/Trackbacks293 !!
Cron API252 !!
Customize201 +114 !!
Database16252 !!
Date/Time424 !!
Editor591 -2127 !!
Autosave189 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit41
TinyMCE3
Export4913 !!
External Libraries291 !!
Feeds61 -16 !!
Filesystem API433 !!
Formatting210 +141 !!
Charset7
Emoji10
Shortcodes5413 !!
General655 -381 !!
Help/About15
HTML API7
HTTP API4714 !!
I18N76 +24 !!
Import6110 !!
Interactivity API2
Mail5316 !!
Media59223 !!
Embeds8519 !!
Gallery3412 !!
Upload7114 !!
Networks and Sites173 +129 !!
Options, Meta APIs14144 !!
Permalinks13128 !!
Canonical8414 !!
Rewrite Rules9324 !!
Plugins277 -343 !!
Posts, Post Types43793 !!
Post Formats123 !!
Post Thumbnails153 !!
Revisions364 !!
Privacy984 !!
Query25764 !!
REST API146 +124 !!
Application Passwords16
Script Loader10030 !!
Security9021 !!
Site Health1067 !!
Sitemaps224 !!
Taxonomy25160 !!
Themes257 +133 !!
Menus186 -225 !!
Widgets17632 !!
Toolbar28
Upgrade/Install265 +119 !!
Users294 -265 !!
Login and Registration14318 !!
Role/Capability7313 !!
XML-RPC32