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
Administration39345 !!
Bootstrap/Load42
Build/Test Tools183 +119 !!
Bundled Theme224 +23 !!
Cache API534 !!
Comments197 +128 !!
Pings/Trackbacks273 !!
Cron API222 !!
Customize200 -215 !!
Database162 -151 !!
Date/Time36 -11 !!
Editor597 -2128 !!
Autosave199 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit432 !!
TinyMCE4
Export4913 !!
External Libraries29 +12 !!
Feeds626 !!
Filesystem API47 +15 !!
Formatting223 +436 !!
Charset81 !!
Emoji11
Shortcodes5613 !!
General698 +394 !!
Help/About17
HTML API9
HTTP API4711 !!
I18N735 !!
Import5610 !!
Interactivity API4 -11 !!
Mail5317 !!
Media59626 !!
Embeds84 +116 !!
Gallery3312 !!
Upload7114 !!
Networks and Sites17226 !!
Options, Meta APIs14241 !!
Permalinks135 +129 !!
Canonical8614 !!
Rewrite Rules93 +125 !!
Plugins286 +145 !!
Posts, Post Types446 -193 !!
Post Formats133 !!
Post Thumbnails172 !!
Revisions374 !!
Privacy1023 !!
Query25964 !!
REST API15024 !!
Application Passwords16
Script Loader10531 !!
Security48 +311 !!
Site Health1138 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy25457 !!
Themes239 +331 !!
Menus18524 !!
Widgets18333 !!
Toolbar29
Upgrade/Install27724 !!
Users29262 !!
Login and Registration149 +220 !!
Role/Capability7213 !!
XML-RPC331 !!