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Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.
Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

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..

Component	Tickets	7 Days	0 Replies
Administration	388	-1	47 !!
Bootstrap/Load	62	-2	5 !!
Build/Test Tools	236	+1	28 !!
Bundled Theme	202	+5	1 !!
Cache API	47	-2	5 !!
Comments	198	-1	28 !!
— Pings/Trackbacks	29		3 !!
Cron API	26		2 !!
Customize	201		14 !!
Database	160		52 !!
Date/Time	45		4 !!
Editor	595	+1	128 !!
— Autosave	18		9 !!
— Quick/Bulk Edit	42
— TinyMCE	3	-2
Export	49		13 !!
External Libraries	31	+1	1 !!
Feeds	63		6 !!
Filesystem API	43		3 !!
Formatting	207	+1	40 !!
— Charset	7
— Emoji	10
— Shortcodes	54		13 !!
General	656	-9	83 !!
Help/About	16		1 !!
HTML API	9	-1
HTTP API	46		13 !!
I18N	80	+1	4 !!
Import	62		11 !!
Interactivity API	1
Mail	52		15 !!
Media	596	-1	21 !!
— Embeds	84		19 !!
— Gallery	34		12 !!
— Upload	71		14 !!
Networks and Sites	172		30 !!
Options, Meta APIs	143	+1	44 !!
Permalinks	131		28 !!
— Canonical	84	+1	14 !!
— Rewrite Rules	93		24 !!
Plugins	277	+2	43 !!
Posts, Post Types	436	+1	95 !!
— Post Formats	12		3 !!
— Post Thumbnails	15		3 !!
— Revisions	36	-1	4 !!
Privacy	98		4 !!
Query	256	+1	65 !!
REST API	150	+1	25 !!
— Application Passwords	16	+1	1 !!
Script Loader	101		31 !!
Security	90	-1	20 !!
Site Health	104		6 !!
Sitemaps	22		5 !!
Taxonomy	251		59 !!
Themes	254	-1	32 !!
— Menus	187		26 !!
— Widgets	177		32 !!
Toolbar	28
Upgrade/Install	262	+1	20 !!
Users	297	+2	65 !!
— Login and Registration	146	-1	18 !!
— Role/Capability	73	-1	13 !!
XML-RPC	33

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Tickets

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0 Replies

Maintainers

Administration

388

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47 !!

Bootstrap/Load

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5 !!