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
Administration458 -353 !!
AI15
— Abilities API11
Bootstrap/Load421 !!
Build/Test Tools219 +215 !!
Bundled Theme218 +8
Cache API523 !!
Comments20328 !!
— Notes1
— Pings/Trackbacks233 !!
Cron API262 !!
Customize1403 !!
Database16445 !!
Date/Time40
Editor564 +7116 !!
— Autosave209 !!
— Quick/Bulk Edit483 !!
— TinyMCE9
Export4910 !!
External Libraries241 !!
Feeds606 !!
Filesystem API495 !!
Formatting224 -731 !!
— Charset121 !!
— Emoji16
— Shortcodes55 +112 !!
General769 -493 !!
Help/About16
HTML API171 !!
HTTP API476 !!
I18N80
Import559 !!
Interactivity API6
Mail17
Media625 +327 !!
— Embeds90 +219 !!
— Gallery29 -19 !!
— Upload7015 !!
Networks and Sites165 +1
Options, Meta APIs146 -137 !!
Permalinks13331 !!
— Canonical8812 !!
— Rewrite Rules9525 !!
Plugins27117 !!
Posts, Post Types273 -1
— Post Formats13
— Post Thumbnails152 !!
— Revisions374 !!
Privacy921 !!
Query27661 !!
REST API180 -124 !!
— Application Passwords15
Script Loader9110 !!
Security56 -112 !!
Site Health1155 !!
Sitemaps23 +13 !!
Taxonomy24651 !!
Themes23027 !!
— Menus177 +121 !!
— Widgets161 +131 !!
Toolbar41 +11 !!
Upgrade/Install28924 !!
Users292 +258 !!
— Login and Registration14817 !!
— Role/Capability7414 !!
XML-RPC35 -11 !!