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
Administration453 +255 !!
AI15
Abilities API13
Bootstrap/Load411 !!
Build/Test Tools207 +115 !!
Bundled Theme218 -1
Cache API493 !!
Comments202 -128 !!
Notes1
Pings/Trackbacks243 !!
Cron API26 +13 !!
Customize1434 !!
Database163 +145 !!
Date/Time38
Editor549 -3113 !!
Autosave209 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit484 !!
TinyMCE8
Export4912 !!
External Libraries251 !!
Feeds59 -16 !!
Filesystem API515 !!
Formatting22936 !!
Charset111 !!
Emoji13
Shortcodes5413 !!
General741 -193 !!
Help/About18
HTML API17 +11 !!
HTTP API466 !!
I18N81 -1
Import559 !!
Interactivity API51 !!
Mail16
Media610 -1826 !!
Embeds88 -218 !!
Gallery2810 !!
Upload6915 !!
Networks and Sites165 +118 !!
Options, Meta APIs14338 !!
Permalinks13432 !!
Canonical8815 !!
Rewrite Rules9525 !!
Plugins270 +117 !!
Posts, Post Types271 +21 !!
Post Formats12
Post Thumbnails152 !!
Revisions363 !!
Privacy1021 !!
Query27463 !!
REST API176 -123 !!
Application Passwords15
Script Loader8810 !!
Security54 +113 !!
Site Health114 +17 !!
Sitemaps243 !!
Taxonomy24652 !!
Themes23027 !!
Menus16823 !!
Widgets16030 !!
Toolbar39 -1
Upgrade/Install280 +123 !!
Users28958 !!
Login and Registration150 +118 !!
Role/Capability7614 !!
XML-RPC321 !!