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
Administration389 -246 !!
Bootstrap/Load40
Build/Test Tools186 -117 !!
Bundled Theme234 -1
Cache API534 !!
Comments198 -226 !!
Pings/Trackbacks273 !!
Cron API222 !!
Customize191 -116 !!
Database16150 !!
Date/Time37
Editor553 -2126 !!
Autosave209 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit43 -11 !!
TinyMCE5
Export5113 !!
External Libraries292 !!
Feeds62 -16 !!
Filesystem API504 !!
Formatting22636 !!
Charset81 !!
Emoji12 -11 !!
Shortcodes5513 !!
General706 -193 !!
Help/About17
HTML API10
HTTP API47 +210 !!
I18N735 !!
Import5610 !!
Interactivity API41 !!
Mail5317 !!
Media60625 !!
Embeds8416 !!
Gallery3312 !!
Upload6814 !!
Networks and Sites17224 !!
Options, Meta APIs14239 !!
Permalinks13429 !!
Canonical8513 !!
Rewrite Rules9324 !!
Plugins279 -242 !!
Posts, Post Types446 -393 !!
Post Formats13
Post Thumbnails172 !!
Revisions373 !!
Privacy1033 !!
Query261 -163 !!
REST API156 -124 !!
Application Passwords16
Script Loader99 -728 !!
Security4811 !!
Site Health113 -28 !!
Sitemaps214 !!
Taxonomy252 -257 !!
Themes23530 !!
Menus183 -122 !!
Widgets183 -132 !!
Toolbar29
Upgrade/Install27722 !!
Users29462 !!
Login and Registration153 -120 !!
Role/Capability7413 !!
XML-RPC331 !!