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
Administration376 -347 !!
Bootstrap/Load40
Build/Test Tools18617 !!
Bundled Theme237 +31 !!
Cache API534 !!
Comments19426 !!
Pings/Trackbacks263 !!
Cron API222 !!
Customize157 -211 !!
Database158 -250 !!
Date/Time37
Editor506 -4118 !!
Autosave209 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit431 !!
TinyMCE5 +11 !!
Export5113 !!
External Libraries31 +22 !!
Feeds62 +16 !!
Filesystem API504 !!
Formatting226 +135 !!
Charset81 !!
Emoji111 !!
Shortcodes5413 !!
General689 -793 !!
Help/About16 +1
HTML API11 +1
HTTP API4710 !!
I18N76 +15 !!
Import559 !!
Interactivity API41 !!
Mail33 -15
Media602 +426 !!
Embeds86 +117 !!
Gallery3012 !!
Upload6514 !!
Networks and Sites168 +122 !!
Options, Meta APIs14038 !!
Permalinks13330 !!
Canonical8513 !!
Rewrite Rules9024 !!
Plugins266 -136 !!
Posts, Post Types439 -191 !!
Post Formats13
Post Thumbnails162 !!
Revisions353 !!
Privacy1033 !!
Query26362 !!
REST API15924 !!
Application Passwords15
Script Loader96 +128 !!
Security48 -110 !!
Site Health116 +28 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy248 -155 !!
Themes236 -130 !!
Menus177 -121 !!
Widgets165 -332 !!
Toolbar28 -1
Upgrade/Install27522 !!
Users293 +161 !!
Login and Registration14919 !!
Role/Capability7413 !!
XML-RPC321 !!