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
Administration398 +446 !!
Bootstrap/Load41
Build/Test Tools182 +115 !!
Bundled Theme221 +32 !!
Cache API524 !!
Comments19727 !!
Pings/Trackbacks283 !!
Cron API26 -12 !!
Customize204 +116 !!
Database16551 !!
Date/Time402 !!
Editor611 -2126 !!
Autosave199 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit432 !!
TinyMCE5 +1
Export4913 !!
External Libraries281 !!
Feeds616 !!
Filesystem API464 !!
Formatting22036 !!
Charset7
Emoji10
Shortcodes5613 !!
General708 -694 !!
Help/About16
HTML API11 -1
HTTP API4711 !!
I18N735 !!
Import5610 !!
Interactivity API52 !!
Mail54 +117 !!
Media60124 !!
Embeds87 +117 !!
Gallery3412 !!
Upload71 -314 !!
Networks and Sites172 +128 !!
Options, Meta APIs14342 !!
Permalinks13429 !!
Canonical8414 !!
Rewrite Rules92 -124 !!
Plugins285 +145 !!
Posts, Post Types445 +193 !!
Post Formats123 !!
Post Thumbnails172 !!
Revisions364 !!
Privacy1023 !!
Query25763 !!
REST API152 +123 !!
Application Passwords17
Script Loader10330 !!
Security51 -110 !!
Site Health1138 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy25256 !!
Themes244 +130 !!
Menus187 +126 !!
Widgets18433 !!
Toolbar29
Upgrade/Install276 +124 !!
Users293 -263 !!
Login and Registration145 +118 !!
Role/Capability7213 !!
XML-RPC331 !!