Title: contributors – Make WordPress Core --- # Tag Archives: contributors [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/) [Stephen Bernhardt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/) 4:45 pm _on_ January 11, 2024 Tags: [contributions ( 5 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), contributors, [team-update ( 35 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [week in core ( 245 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [Year in Core ( 3 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) # 󠀁[A Year in Core – 2023](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/01/11/a-year-in-core-2023/)󠁿 Happy new year, everyone! Here’s some aggregate data for 2023 about WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Please note: * These data only include code contributions to WordPress codebase, not contributions on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) repositories such as GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). * The raw data for this post are [available on this public spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Bmp8ys4jQFiWJP_KluooSlM-533gu4dEyU1l3EQsYM/edit?usp=sharing). You might find that much easier to read if you have low vision or colorblindness; the graphics below are a snapshot pulled together to include as much information as possible in this blogpost, but they are hard to make accessible to everyone. * You can also compare these stats with [last year’s data](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/01/03/a-year-in-core-2022/) and [data from 2021](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/29/a-year-in-core-2021/). * All the links for the graphics below open a new tab to display them in full size. ## General Trac overview In 2023, the WordPress Core team shipped **2211 commits** (2597 in 2022). 2751 tickets were opened, 2545 tickets were closed, and 365 were reopened. Also, **1079 people contributed** to WordPress source code using Trac (988 in 2022), and **472 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core** ♥️ (398 in 2022). | | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total | | **Commits** | 148 | 265 | 179 | 84 | 174 | 246 | 209 | 173 | 250 | 288 | 108 | 87 | 2211 | | **Tickets closed** | 181 | 297 | 218 | 156 | 179 | 259 | 211 | 277 | 239 | 268 | 148 | 112 | 2545 | | **Tickets reopened** | 25 | 36 | 36 | 19 | 25 | 40 | 42 | 29 | 35 | 40 | 28 | 10 | 365 | | **Tickets created** | 185 | 234 | 208 | 188 | 208 | 255 | 256 | 310 | 250 | 270 | 212 | 175 | 2751 | | **New contributors** | 18 | 91 | 23 | 18 | 25 | 74 | 51 | 31 | 75 | 46 | 12 | 8 | 472 | | **Contributors** | 137 | 295 | 155 | 87 | 150 | 279 | 217 | 182 | 295 | 249 | 111 | 93 | 1079 | This chart shows the number of commits per month in 2023, and the number of closed, reopened and created tickets per month. It also shows the number of contributors per month in 2023. It can be scrolled horizontally. Check out the Trac timeline in the graphs below: [⌊2023 Core Trac tickets by month (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊2023 Core Trac tickets by month (opens in a new tab)⌉[ [⌊2023 Core commits by month (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊2023 Core commits by month (opens in a new tab)⌉[ Here’s how many props and new contributors the Core project had per month. The most prolific months were February and September with 295 contributors each, followed by June and October. 42 of the new contributors received their first props on a commit related to the Twenty Twenty-Four theme. [⌊2023 WordPress Core contributors by month (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊2023 WordPress Core contributors by month (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ## Components activity How did 2023’s commits break out by Core Component? The most prolific components were: * **Editor** with 284 commits (12.8% of all listed commits) * **Build/Test Tools** with 265 commits (12% of all listed commits) * **Docs** with 188 commits (8.5% of all listed commits) * **Coding Standards** with 154 commits (7% of all listed commits) * **Bundled Themes** with 130 commits (5.9% of all listed commits) * Then came **Media**, **Help/About**, **Code Modernization** (which is not an official component), **Themes**, **Administration**, **General**, **HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.**, **Internationalization**,** REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/)** and **Upgrade/Install**. The other components each had fewer than 30 commits this year. ## Contributors data retrieved from WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. 󠀁[https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)󠁿 profiles The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org. One caveat: this ignores usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, plus any that had blank or unusable country/company information (“The Universe” or “Unicorn land” are not known countries 🙂). ### Contributions by country The next graph shows the number of props received by country. The top eight countries, based on the number of props received, are these: * **United States** with 2062 contributions (1255 in 2022) * **Russia **with 795 contributions (1152 in 2022) * **India** with 683 contributions (317 in 2022) * **France** with 680 contributions (739 in 2022) * **Australia** with 611 contributions (386 in 2022) * **United Kingdom** with 471 contributions (216 in 2022) * **Ireland** with 403 contributions * **Bangladesh** with 340 contributions (145 in 2022) [⌊Contributions by country (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Contributions by country (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ### Contributors (people) by country In 2023, people from at least 62 countries contributed to WordPress Core (57 countries in 2022). Here are the top eight countries by number of contributors: * **United States** with 164 people (152 in 2022) * **Bangladesh** with 105 people (only 43 in 2022) * **India** with 93 people (77 in 2022) * **United Kingdom** with 31 people (38 in 2022) * **France** with 30 people (22 in 2022) * **Canada** with 25 people (17 in 2022) * **Germany** with 21 people (25 in 2022) * **Netherlands** with 21 people (23 in 2022) * **Spain** with 19 people (12 in 2022) [⌊Contributors by country (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Contributors by country (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ### Contributions by company In 2023, people from at least 286 companies contributed to WP Core. These companies (well, their employees) each contributed to more than 100 commits: * **Automattic** with 1770 contributions (866 in 2022) * **Yoast** with 985 contributions (1452 in 2022) * **10up** with 904 contributions (501 in 2022) * **Whodunit** with 561 contributions (676 in 2022) * **Google** with 404 contributions (130 in 2022) * **Bluehost** with 238 contributions (226 in 2022) * **XWP** with 224 contributions (14 in 2022) * **Human Made** with 177 contributions (126 in 2022) * **Advies en zo** with 143 contributions (220 in 2022) * **Dream Encode** with 128 contributions (124 in 2022) * **Emilia Capital** with 123 contributions * **Accessible WD** with 120 contributions (53 in 2022) * **GoDaddy** with 111 contributions (42 in 2022) [⌊Contributions by company (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Contributions by company (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ### Contributors (people) by company A huge number of companies have only one contributor—or very few contributors. The exceptions are **Automattic**, with 108 core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org) on Trac in 2023,** WPDeveloper** (39 contributors), **10up** with 25 contributors, **AuthLab** (21 contributors), **rtCamp** (17 contributors), **Awsm** (12 contributors), **Human Made** (12 contributors), **Multidots** (12 contributors), and **Yoast** (10 contributors). Only these 9 companies had at least 10 people credited on Trac in 2023. [⌊Contributors by company (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Contributors by company (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ## What did 2022 hold for Core Committers? **39 Core Committers** committed code to the WordPress SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repository this year (32 in 2022): [@sergeybiryukov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/) (552), [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/)( 413), [@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/) (148), [@hellofromtonya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/)( 134), [@joedolson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/) (93), [@isabel_brison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/isabel_brison/)( 88), [@spacedmonkey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spacedmonkey/) (88), [@flixos90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/)( 87), [@peterwilsoncc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/) (82), [@davidbaumwald](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/)( 77), [@bernhard-reiter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bernhard-reiter/) (67), [@jorbin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/)( 44), [@johnbillion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/) (43), [@joemcgill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/)( 39), [@swissspidy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/) (30), [@azaozz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/)( 27), [@costdev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/) (25), [@westonruter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/)( 25), [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) (24), [@gziolo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/)( 22), [@oandregal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oandregal/) (15), [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/)( 15), [@adamsilverstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/) (9), [@danielbachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/)( 9), [@jorgefilipecosta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/) (8), [@zieladam](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zieladam/)( 7), [@kadamwhite](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kadamwhite/) (6), [@youknowriad](https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/)( 6), [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) (4), [@drewapicture](https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewapicture/)( 4), [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/) (4), [@afercia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/afercia/)( 3), [@timothyblynjacobs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timothyblynjacobs/) (3), [@clorith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/) (2), [@dd32](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/)( 2), [@helen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen/) (2), [@ocean90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/)( 2), [@johnjamesjacoby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/) (1), and [@whyisjake](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whyisjake/) (1). Of the **2211 commits**, 555 (25%) were made by people working at **Yoast**, 413( 19%) from people working at **Whodunit**, 399 (18%) from employees of **Automattic**, followed by **Google** (151 commits), **Bluehost** (148 commits) and **10up** (123 commits). [⌊Core Committers by company (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Core Committers by company (opens in a new tab)⌉[ **Automattic** is the only company with more than 10 _active_ Core Committers, and 12 of them committed code in 2023. **Google** has 4 people allowed to commit code to WordPress, followed by **10up** with 3 Core Committers. Worth noting that 15 of the 39 active committers come from the US, which represents 38% of the Core Committers squad. Australia, Canada, Italy, Poland and United Kingdom each had 2 committers. More than 30% of the commits were handled by committers located in the United States, 26% by committers located in Russia, and 19% by committers located in France. [⌊Core Committers by country (opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Core Committers by country (opens in a new tab)⌉[ ## Sponsorship In 2023, 21.6% of the contributors and 23.1% of the committers indicated that a company sponsors their contributions. [⌊Sponsorship of contributors in 2023 (pie chart opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Sponsorship of contributors in 2023 (pie chart opens in a new tab)⌉[ [⌊Sponsorship of committers in 2023 (pie chart opens in a new tab)⌉⌊Sponsorship of committers in 2023 (pie chart opens in a new tab)⌉[ --- Many thanks to [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) for help collecting the 2023 data and for adding several graphics. [#contributions](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#team-update](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [#week-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [#year-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 9:06 pm _on_ January 3, 2023 Tags: [contributions ( 5 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), contributors, [team-update ( 35 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [week in core ( 245 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [Year in Core ( 3 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) # 󠀁[A Year in Core – 2022](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/01/03/a-year-in-core-2022/)󠁿 Happy new year everyone! Here’s some aggregate data for 2022 about WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Please note: these data only include code contributions to WordPress codebase, and it does not include contributions on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) repositories like GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). The raw data for this post are [available on this public spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZpAo2I7HKNXqDavpMbIRejZStBKQhAVjBVi4hQThR2s/edit?usp=sharing). You might find that much easier to read if you have low vision or colorblindness; the graphics below are a snapshot pulled together to include as much information as possible in this blogpost, but they are hard to make accessible to everyone. You can also compare these stats with [last year’s data](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/29/a-year-in-core-2021/). Last note: all the graphics below link to to a new tab to display them in full size. ## General Trac overview In 2022, the WordPress Core team shipped **2597 commits** (1852 in 2021). 2656 tickets were opened, 2413 tickets were closed, and 353 were reopened. Also, **988 people contributed** to WordPress source code using Trac (832 in 2021), and **398 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core** ♥️ (305 in 2021). | | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total | | **Commits** | 229 | 156 | 230 | 279 | 133 | 172 | 183 | 235 | 320 | 374 | 182 | 104 | 2597 | | **Tickets closed** | 214 | 217 | 187 | 190 | 194 | 146 | 220 | 148 | 269 | 278 | 240 | 110 | 2413 | | **Tickets reopened** | 55 | 46 | 22 | 23 | 34 | 27 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 33 | 40 | 11 | 353 | | **Tickets created** | 297 | 252 | 230 | 132 | 235 | 230 | 194 | 171 | 218 | 231 | 299 | 167 | 2656 | | **New contributors** | 18 | 32 | 20 | 37 | 15 | 18 | 69 | 31 | 68 | 43 | 43 | 4 | 398 | | **Contributors** | 115 | 122 | 168 | 200 | 110 | 105 | 196 | 211 | 327 | 237 | 162 | 56 | 988 | This chart shows the number of commits per month in 2022, and the number of closed, reopened and created tickets per month. It also shows the number of contributors per month in 2022. It can be scrolled horizontally. Check out the Trac timeline in the graph below: [⌊2022 WordPress Core Trac Timeline⌉⌊2022 WordPress Core Trac Timeline⌉[ Here’s how many props and new contributors the Core project had per month. The most prolific month was September, followed by October, August and July, during the WordPress 6.1 development cycle. March and April were also prolific months (WP 6.0 development cycle). [⌊2022 WordPress Core Contributors by month⌉⌊2022 WordPress Core Contributors by month⌉[ ## Components activity How did 2022’s commits break out by Core Component? The most prolific components were: * **Build/Test Tools** with 366 commits (17% of all listed commits) * **Docs** with 297 commits (14% of all listed commits) * **Editor** with 207 commits (10% of all listed commits) * **Coding Standards** with 145 commits (7% of all listed commits) and **Code Modernization**( which is not an official component) with 135 commits (6% of all listed commits) * **Bundled Themes** with 128 commits (6% of all listed commits) * Then comes **Media**, **Administration**, **REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application( think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/)**,** Themes**, **General**, **Upgrade/Install**, **Help/About**, **Internationalization**,** Posts/Post Types**, **Query** and **Users**. The other components each had fewer than 30 commits this year. [⌊2022 WordPress commits by component⌉⌊2022 WordPress commits by component⌉[ ## Contributors data retrieved from WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. 󠀁[https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)󠁿 profiles The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org. One caveat: this ignores usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, plus any that had blank or unusable country/company information (“The Universe” or “Unicorn land” are not known countries 🙂). ### Contributions by country The next graph shows the number of props received by country. The top eight countries, based on the number of props received, are these: * **United States** with 1255 contributions (1142 in 2021) * **Russia **with 1152 contributions (227 in 2021) * **France** with 739 contributions (266 in 2021) * **Australia** with 386 contributions (211 in 2021) * **India** with 317 contributions (219 in 2021) * **Netherlands** with 225 contributions * **United Kingdom** with 216 contributions (112 in 2021) * **Sweden** with 182 contributions (102 in 2021) [⌊2022 WordPress Contributions by Country⌉⌊2022 WordPress Contributions by Country⌉[ ### Contributors (people) by country In 2022, people from at least 57 countries contributed to WordPress Core (56 countries in 2021). Here is the top eight countries by number of contributors: * **United States** with 152 people (155 in 2021) * **India** with 77 people (58 in 2021) * **Bangladesh** with 43 people (only 13 in 2021) * **United Kingdom** with 38 people (34 in 2021) * **Germany** with 25 people (23 in 2021) * **Netherlands** with 23 people (20 in 2021) * **France** with 22 people (26 in 2021) * **Canada** with 17 people (16 in 2021) * **Italy** with 13 people (15 in 2021) [⌊2022 WordPress Contributors by Country⌉⌊2022 WordPress Contributors by Country⌉[ ### Contributions by company In 2022, people from at least 229 companies contributed to WP Core. These companies (well, their employees) each contributed to more than 100 commits: * **Yoast** with 1452 contributions (379 in 2021) * **Automattic** with 866 contributions (785 in 2021) * **Whodunit** with 676 contributions (215 in 2021) * **10up** with 501 contributions (30 in 2021) * **Bluehost** with 226 contributions (146 in 2021) * **Advies en zo** with 220 contributions (191 in 2021) * **Spacedmonkey** with 132 contributions (38 in 2021) * **Google** with 130 contributions (87 in 2021) * **Dream Encode** with 124 contributions (20 in 2021) * **Human Made** with 126 contributions (131 in 2021) * **Awesome Motive** with 122 contributions (29 in 2021) [⌊2022 WordPress Contributions by Company⌉⌊2022 WordPress Contributions by Company⌉[ ### Contributors (people) by company The graph below is also interesting, because it shows that a huge number of companies have only one contributor—or a very few contributors. The exceptions are **Automattic**, with 88 core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org) on Trac in 2022, **10up** with 38 contributors, **Yoast** (18 contributors), **WPDeveloper**( 15 contributors), **Multidots** (14 contributors), and **rtCamp** (10 contributors). Only these 6 companies had more than 10 people credited on Trac in 2022. [⌊2022 WordPress Contributors by Company⌉⌊2022 WordPress Contributors by Company⌉[ ## What did 2022 hold for Core Committers? **32 Core Committers** committed code to the WordPress SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repository this year (33 in 2021): [@sergeybiryukov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/) (755), [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/)( 414), [@peterwilsoncc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/) (126), [@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/)( 125), [@davidbaumwald](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/) (87), [@gziolo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/)( 72), [@spacedmonkey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spacedmonkey/) (53), [@hellofromtonya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/)( 48), [@johnbillion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/) (45), [@joedolson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/)( 31), [@azaozz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/) (21), [@jorgefilipecosta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/)( 19), [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/) (15), [@flixos90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/)( 12), [@adamsilverstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/) (10), [@clorith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/)( 10), [@noisysocks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/) (9), [@ocean90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/)( 7), [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) (6), [@bernhard-reiter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bernhard-reiter/)( 6), [@jorbin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/) (5), [@timothyblynjacobs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timothyblynjacobs/)( 4), [@swissspidy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/) (4), [@jffng](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jffng/)( 4), [@westonruter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/) (3), [@pento](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento/)( 2), [@helen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen/) (2), [@youknowriad](https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/)( 2), [@kadamwhite](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kadamwhite/) (1), [@joemcgill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/)( 1), [@mcsf](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcsf/) (1), and [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/)( 1). Of the **1901 commits**, 755 (39%) were made by people working at **Yoast**, 414( 21%) from people working at **Whodunit**, 199 (10%) from employees of **Automattic**, followed by **10up** (128 commits) and **Bluehost** (125 commits). [⌊2022 WordPress Commits by Company⌉⌊2022 WordPress Commits by Company⌉[ **Automattic** is the only company with more than 10 _active_ Core Committers. ** Google** has 4 people allowed to commit code to WordPress, followed by **10up** and **Human Made** with 2 Core Committers. [⌊2022 WordPress Committers by Company⌉⌊2022 WordPress Committers by Company⌉[ Worth noting that 14 of the 32 active committers come from the US, which represents 43% of the Core Committers squad. Australia comes second with 3 committers and Portugal third with 2 committers. More than 39% of the commits where handled by committers located in Russia, 21% by committers located in France, and 18% by committers located in the US. [⌊2022 WordPress Committers by Country⌉⌊2022 WordPress Committers by Country⌉[ [⌊2022 WordPress Commits by Country⌉⌊2022 WordPress Commits by Country⌉[ --- Many thanks to [@sabernhardt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/) for his help to collect the 2022 data and to proofread this recap. [#contributions](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#team-update](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [#week-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [#year-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 10:45 pm _on_ December 29, 2021 Tags: [contributions ( 5 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), contributors, [team-update ( 35 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [week in core ( 245 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [Year in Core ( 3 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) # 󠀁[A Year in Core – 2021](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/29/a-year-in-core-2021/)󠁿 Here’s some aggregate data for 2021 about WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Please note: it only include code contributions and it does not include contributions on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) repositories like GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). The raw data for this post are [on this public spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XY6Vt4uZUDjLPwmosp49mMZekNyIohU-8OHTefbHOsQ/edit?usp=sharing). You might find that easier to read if you have low vision or colorblindness; the graphics below are a snapshot pulled together to include as much information as possible in this blogpost. ## General Trac overview In 2021, the WordPress Core team shipped **1852 commits**. 2797 tickets were opened, 2732 tickets were closed, and 408 were reopened. Also, **2572 people contributed** to WordPress source code using Trac, and **305 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core** ♥️ | | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | | **Commits** | 62 | 175 | 110 | 97 | 142 | 286 | 174 | 175 | 103 | 57 | 327 | 144 | **1852** | | **Tickets closed** | 236 | 315 | 372 | 147 | 182 | 355 | 248 | 210 | 157 | 88 | 271 | 151 | **2732** | | **Tickets reopened** | 26 | 33 | 45 | 21 | 25 | 37 | 77 | 36 | 22 | 19 | 31 | 36 | **408** | | **Tickets created** | 200 | 280 | 371 | 177 | 197 | 320 | 288 | 297 | 161 | 126 | 190 | 190 | **2797** | | **New contributors** | 14 | 43 | 14 | 22 | 35 | 37 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 71 | 10 | **305** | | **Contributors** | 120 | 229 | 165 | 117 | 280 | 400 | 154 | 132 | 156 | 90 | 555 | 174 | **2572** | This chart can be scrolled horizontally Check out the Trac timeline in the graph below: [[ Here’s how many props and new contributors the Core project had per month. The most prolific month was November, in the WordPress 5.9 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. cycle, followed by June (WP 5.8 beta cycle). [[ ## Components activity How did 2021’s commits break out by Core Component? The most prolific components were: * **Build/Test Tools** with 310 commits (17% of all listed commits) * **Docs** with 198 commits (11% of all listed commits) * **Editor** with 188 commits (10.5% of all listed commits) * **Bundled Themes** with 144 commits (8% of all listed commits) * **Coding Standards** with 140 commits (8% of all listed commits) * Then comes **Media**, **REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/)**,** Code Modernization**, **External Librairies**, **Administration**, **Upgrade/ Install**, **Site Health** and **Posts/Post Types**. The other components each had fewer than 30 commits this year. [[ ## Data fetched from WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. 󠀁[https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)󠁿 profiles The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org. One caveat: usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, or that left blank their country/company information, filled in non-exploitable info got ignored. After all, “The Universe” or “The place to be” are not known countries 😆 ### Contributions by country The next graph shows the number of props received by country. The top eight countries, based on the number of props received, are these: * **United States** with 1142 contributions * **France** with 266 contributions * **Russia** with 227 contributions * The **Netherlands** with 225 contributions * **India** with 219 contributions * **Australia** with 211 contributions * **United Kingdom** with 112 contributions * **Canada** with 102 contributions [[ ### Contributors (people) by country In 2021, people from more than 56 countries contributed to WordPress Core. The top eight countries by contributions, expressed as the number of props received, are: * **United States** with 155 people * **India** with 58 people * **United Kingdom** with 34 people * **France** with 26 people * **Germany** with 23 people * The **Netherlands** with 20 people * **Canada** with 16 people * **Australia** with 15 people [[ ### Contributions by company In 2021, people from at least 236 companies contributed to WP Core. These companies each contributed (well, their people did) to more than 50 commits: * **Automattic** with 785 contributions * **Yoast** with 379 contributions * **Whodunit** with 215 contributions * **Advies en zo** with 191 contributions * **Bluehost** with 146 contributions * **Human Made** with 131 contributions * **Google** with 87 contributions * **iThemes** with 73 contributions * **Dekode Interaktiv** with 52 contributions [[ ### Contributors (people) by company The graph below is also interesting, because it shows that a huge number of companies have only one contributor—or a very few contributors. The exceptions are **Automattic**, with 85 core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org) on Trac in 2021, **Yoast** (18 contributors) and **10up**. Only those three companies had more than ten people credited on Trac in 2021. [[ ## What did 2021 hold for Core Committers? **33 Core Committers** committed code to the WordPress SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repository this year: [@sergeybiryukov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/) (729), [@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/)( 272), [@hellofromtonya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/) (159), [@johnbillion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/)( 93), [@peterwilsoncc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/) (86), [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/)( 61), [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) (59), [@noisysocks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/)( 54), [@joedolson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/) (46), [@gziolo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/)( 42), [@timothyblynjacobs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timothyblynjacobs/) (38), [@youknowriad](https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/) (38), [@davidbaumwald](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/)( 31), [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) (26), [@whyisjake](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whyisjake/)( 20), [@jorbin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/) (19), [@azaozz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/)( 18), [@jorgefilipecosta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/) (15), [@johnjamesjacoby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/) (13), [@ocean90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/)( 12), [@clorith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/) (10), [@spacedmonkey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spacedmonkey/)( 9), [@adamsilverstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/) (8), [@flixos90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/)( 7), [@jffng](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jffng/) (6), [@pento](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento/)( 6), [@iandunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/) (5), [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/)( 4), [@westonruter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/) (4), [@joemcgill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/)( 3), [@rachelbaker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rachelbaker/) (2), [@isabel_brison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/isabel_brison/)( 2), and [@swissspidy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/) (1). Of the **1852 commits**, 729 were made by people working at **Yoast**, 426 from employees of **Automattic**, and 272 came from **Bluehost** people: [[ Thanks to [@marybaum](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/) for the copy review and to [@flixos90](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/) and [@adamsilverstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/) for proofreading. [#contributions](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributions/), [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#team-update](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-update/), [#week-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/), [#year-in-core](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/year-in-core/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) 5:49 pm _on_ January 4, 2016 Tags: annual survey, contributors    # 󠀁[2015 Contributor Survey](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/04/2015-contributor-survey/)󠁿 Hi coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team folks! Thanks for all your hard work and contributions in 2015. Could you contribute few more minutes to fill in [the 2015 contributor survey](http://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/2015-wordpress-contributor-survey)? It will help us establish some baselines around the contributor experience so that we can see how things change over time. _**This is being posted to all the Make teams, so if you subscribe to a bunch of p2s and keep seeing this post, know that you only need to fill the survey in once, not once per team.**_ The survey is anonymous (so you can be extra honest), all questions are optional( so you can skip any that you don’t want to answer), and we’ll post some aggregate results by the end of January. It took testers 5-10 minutes to complete on average( depends how much you have to say), so I bet you could knock it out right after you read this post! 🙂 There are two sections of the survey. The first has questions about team involvement, recognition, and event involvement, and is pretty much what you’d expect from an annual survey (which teams did you contribute to, how happy are you as a contributor, etc). The second section is about demographics so we can take a stab at assessing how diverse our contributor base is. All questions are optional, but the more information we have the better we can figure out what we need to improve. If there’s some information you’d rather not identify, that’s okay, but please do not provide false information or use the form to make jokes — just skip those questions. The survey will be open until January 15, 2016. Whether you have 5 minutes now, or 10 over lunch (or whenever), please take [the 2015 contributor survey](http://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/2015-wordpress-contributor-survey). Thanks! [#annual-survey](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/annual-survey/), [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) 10:45 pm _on_ June 10, 2012 Tags: [3.4 ( 20 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/3-4/), contributors, [credits ( 5 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/credits/)    # 󠀁[Updated Credits](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/06/10/updated-credits/)󠁿 Each release cycle, we try to recognize those core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org) who’ve made the greatest impact, ramped up the quickest, and/or been the most reliable. [[ In the Contributing Developers categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging., mainstays Sergey Biryukov, Dominik Schilling (Ocean90), and Cristi Burcă (Scribu) are joined by Aaron Campbell and Helen Hou-Sandi. Aaron has been contributing for several years, but his work this cycle on improvements to custom headers stood out. Helen, who was a Recent Rockstar in 3.3, stepped up with improvements to the theme screen, UIUI User interface/CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. fixes, and general helpfulness as fixes of all sorts were made through the later stages of the cycle. The Recent Rockstars section is mainly aimed at recognizing newer contributors and/ or contributors who’ve been around for awhile casually but have recently increased their involvement. In this category, Amy Hendrix worked (with Aaron Campbell) on the improvements to custom headers with great success. George Stephanis worked on css and improving the mobile experience. Stas Sușkov contributed to the thinking behind HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. captions, a feature that has been waiting patiently on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. for years. Max Cutler and Marko Heijnen both worked on updating aspects of XML-RPC, and Kurt Payne contributed to dozens of tickets including the refactoring of adminadmin (and super admin)-ajax. php. Thank you all for your increased efforts, and congratulations on having your picture in the credits! [#3-4](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/3-4/), [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#credits](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/credits/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) 7:45 pm _on_ April 5, 2012 Tags: contributors, [survey ( 7 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/survey/) # 󠀁[Organizing Our Contributor Groups](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/04/05/organizing-our-contributor-groups/)󠁿 Hi there, core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org)( and those who follow them). One of the things I’ve been meaning to do in the contributor community for the last 3-4 years is organize it so that when we say “contributor” it doesn’t just mean coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. code and the different contributing groups can all be on the same page. You may have seen some surveys sent/posted to the forums/docs/theme review teams etc. Your turn! In order to create a closer relationship between all the contributor groups, ensure our policies and agendas don’t conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered _stale_, and will require a _refresh_ of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be _resolved_., recognize outstanding contributors, and just generally level up, we need some organization. To wit: * I’d like to identify who the active contributors are in each group. * I’d like to appoint someone from each group (based on votes from the active group participants) as a group liaison to the rest of the WP project and any cross- team initiatives to improve communication. * I’d like to set up a central P2P2 A [free theme for WordPress](http://p2theme.com/), known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project management. See our [main development blog](https://make.wordpress.org/core/) and [other workgroup blogs](https://make.wordpress.org/). for communicating project- wide things so that no contributor group ever has to hear important announcements after the fact and we can discuss any issues that come up that could use the help/attention of people from other groups (including core). * I’d like to try and set up a monthly IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are **#wordpress** and **#wordpress-dev**, on irc.freenode.net. chat and/or Google hangout for the liaisons to have some real-time communication. * I’d like to organize an annual contributor summit. Similar to the core team meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through [https://www.meetup.com/](https://www.meetup.com/). A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. concept, but more inclusive. The core code contributor team is the most in the know right now, but I’d like to make things a little more equal. Even within core, sometimes I hear people saying they wish they had more of a voice. The way the survey is set up, first you’ll pick how many reps you think core needs to have in the game (just one for core, or a couple, with each representing a different level of experience/seniority to make sure more issues/concerns are heard?), then you’ll vote on who you think the rep( s) should be. Note that inclusion in the survey does not mean that person has agreed to be a rep… I just pulled from our credits list and teams page for 3.4. Once the votes are in, I’ll contact people to see if they’re up for it. The survey is at http://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/core-contributors and is password protected to help reduce spam responses: core2012 If you could fill it in before the weekend is over (or right now… it’s only a few multiple choice questions), that would be great. Thanks! [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#survey](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/survey/) [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markjaquith/) [Mark Jaquith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markjaquith/) 5:25 am _on_ March 20, 2008 Tags: contributors, poka-yoke, [UI ( 99 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/ui/) # 󠀁[Contributors are no longer shown a bunch …](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2008/03/20/contributors-are-no-longer-shown-a-bunch/)󠁿 Contributors are no longer shown a bunch of things that they can’t use, and Contributors/ Authors don’t see delete checkboxes or edit links for posts they can’t delete/edit( [poka-yoke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke)). [#contributors](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/contributors/), [#poka-yoke](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/poka-yoke/), [#ui](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/ui/)