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
Administration381 -142 !!
Bootstrap/Load64 -27 !!
Build/Test Tools229 +528 !!
Bundled Theme436 -153 !!
Cache API49 +16 !!
Comments19430 !!
Pings/Trackbacks283 !!
Cron API232 !!
Customize197 -112 !!
Database154 +149 !!
Date/Time424 !!
Editor524 +4110 !!
Autosave1810 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit40
TinyMCE143 !!
Export4712 !!
External Libraries29
Feeds668 !!
Filesystem API433 !!
Formatting20140 !!
Charset84 !!
Emoji12
Shortcodes5312 !!
General582 +264 !!
Help/About141 !!
HTML API32 !!
HTTP API4410 !!
I18N1047 !!
Import6210 !!
Mail4913 !!
Media60233 !!
Embeds8218 !!
Gallery3411 !!
Upload7216 !!
Networks and Sites16726 !!
Options, Meta APIs13649 !!
Permalinks12725 !!
Canonical8213 !!
Rewrite Rules9224 !!
Plugins254 +138 !!
Posts, Post Types423 -188 !!
Post Formats175 !!
Post Thumbnails174 !!
Revisions363 !!
Privacy965 !!
Query248 +160 !!
REST API144 +130 !!
Application Passwords14 +11 !!
Script Loader89 -125 !!
Security89 +120 !!
Site Health94 -17 !!
Sitemaps194 !!
Taxonomy23955 !!
Themes26644 !!
Menus179 +123 !!
Widgets17028 !!
Toolbar341 !!
Upgrade/Install251 -115 !!
Users28965 !!
Login and Registration14219 !!
Role/Capability7313 !!
XML-RPC33