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
Administration45055 !!
AI15 +1
Abilities API14 +2
Bootstrap/Load411 !!
Build/Test Tools208 -215 !!
Bundled Theme217 -1
Cache API513 !!
Comments20328 !!
Notes1
Pings/Trackbacks243 !!
Cron API262 !!
Customize142 -23 !!
Database16145 !!
Date/Time39
Editor547 -4113 !!
Autosave209 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit484 !!
TinyMCE8
Export4912 !!
External Libraries251 !!
Feeds596 !!
Filesystem API50 -15 !!
Formatting228 -135 !!
Charset11
Emoji12
Shortcodes5413 !!
General745 -195 !!
Help/About17
HTML API19 +22 !!
HTTP API476 !!
I18N81
Import559 !!
Interactivity API51 !!
Mail16
Media604 -726 !!
Embeds8818 !!
Gallery2810 !!
Upload6915 !!
Networks and Sites167 +117 !!
Options, Meta APIs143 -138 !!
Permalinks13432 !!
Canonical8814 !!
Rewrite Rules9525 !!
Plugins26917 !!
Posts, Post Types275 +11 !!
Post Formats12 -1
Post Thumbnails152 !!
Revisions363 !!
Privacy101 -11 !!
Query27463 !!
REST API176 -423 !!
Application Passwords15
Script Loader8910 !!
Security57 +316 !!
Site Health109 -25 !!
Sitemaps243 !!
Taxonomy245 -151 !!
Themes232 +227 !!
Menus16822 !!
Widgets16030 !!
Toolbar37 -1
Upgrade/Install283 +123 !!
Users29058 !!
Login and Registration150 -118 !!
Role/Capability7614 !!
XML-RPC32 -11 !!