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
Administration391 -244 !!
Bootstrap/Load42
Build/Test Tools183 +117 !!
Bundled Theme230 +53 !!
Cache API524 !!
Comments19828 !!
Pings/Trackbacks273 !!
Cron API222 !!
Customize201 -116 !!
Database16150 !!
Date/Time371 !!
Editor599 +5127 !!
Autosave199 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit43 -11 !!
TinyMCE4
Export4913 !!
External Libraries292 !!
Feeds63 +16 !!
Filesystem API494 !!
Formatting22436 !!
Charset81 !!
Emoji11
Shortcodes5613 !!
General710 -193 !!
Help/About16 -1
HTML API9
HTTP API4711 !!
I18N745 !!
Import5610 !!
Interactivity API41 !!
Mail5317 !!
Media600 +127 !!
Embeds84 -116 !!
Gallery3312 !!
Upload7114 !!
Networks and Sites172 +226 !!
Options, Meta APIs142 -141 !!
Permalinks136 +228 !!
Canonical8614 !!
Rewrite Rules9224 !!
Plugins283 -145 !!
Posts, Post Types449 +393 !!
Post Formats133 !!
Post Thumbnails172 !!
Revisions374 !!
Privacy1023 !!
Query25964 !!
REST API154 +223 !!
Application Passwords16
Script Loader10530 !!
Security4811 !!
Site Health1138 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy254 -157 !!
Themes240 +330 !!
Menus18624 !!
Widgets182 -133 !!
Toolbar29
Upgrade/Install280 +423 !!
Users295 +263 !!
Login and Registration15020 !!
Role/Capability7313 !!
XML-RPC33 -11 !!