WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey,” released on July 16, 2024, was named in honor of the legendary American Big Band leader Tommy Dorsey. This statistic was compiled using the props list prepared by Jonathan Desrosiers, Chloé Bringmann and others, focusing solely on WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributions (i.e., props earned for source code contributions) and mostly excluding other contributions. 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/ profile information was parsed to gather details such as country and employer. When information was unavailable, external sources (e.g. LinkedIn) were used to fill in information (like company name and contributor country). Detailed calculations can be found in the sheet below—special thanks to Jb Audras (@audrasjb), whose past work and methodology have greatly inspired and supported this dashboard.
WordPress 6.6 Overall Stats
About 640 people from at least 53 countries and 129 identified companies contributed to WordPress 6.6.
It’s worth noting that 241 people contributed to WordPress Core for the very first time! That’s about 38% of the total contributors, which is an excellent ratio!
Country ranking by number of contributions
It’s fascinating to see how truly global WordPress is, with contributions pouring in from every corner of the world!
USA is still number one by far with 1033 contributions, and Australia comes 2nd with 762 contributions. Spain and the United Kingdom follow with 711 and 468 contributions each, and Japan and India with 368 and 344 props.
Contributors by Country
Contributions are just one piece of the puzzle—let’s shift our focus to the people behind them: the contributors. Instead of looking solely at the number of contributions, we can highlight the individuals credited in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets or 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ pull requests for this release. Here’s what the data shows:
The United States leads with 84 contributors, followed by India with 69 and Bangladesh with 23. Spain and the United Kingdom are next, each with 22 and 20 contributors each.
In summary, the United States has the highest number of individual contributors and contributions (props). While Bangladesh and India have a solid contributor base, their overall contribution count remains lower.
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Company ranking by contributors
Of the 129 identified companies that contributed to WordPress 6.6, Automattic had by far the largest number of contributors, with 105 people involved. rtCamp is the second biggest company in terms of contributors, with 14 people. 10up comes third with 12 people. Yoast and Multidots come fourth and fifth with 11 and 9 people, respectively.
Contributions by Company
Automattic is still the most prolific company, with employees credited with no less than 3,562 contributions (by 105 contributors). It is followed by Yoast with 396 contributions (by 11 contributors) and GoDaddy (335 contributions by 4 people). Next, we have LOOS Inc. (274 contributions by 1 person), Google (217 contributions by 5 people), 10up (216 contributions by 12 people), and Whodunit (109 contributions by 2 people).
Individual ranking – WordPress 6.6
Here are the top 30 of WordPress 6.6 contributors. You can also check out the full table on this spreadsheet.
| .org name | Count | Company Name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| youknowriad | 319 | Automattic | Algeria |
| wildworks | 274 | LOOS Inc | Japan |
| mamaduka | 265 | GoDaddy | Georgia |
| ellatrix | 208 | Automattic | Not Credited |
| sergeybiryukov | 184 | Yoast | Russia |
| jameskoster | 174 | Automattic | United Kingdom |
| joen | 171 | Automattic | Denmark |
| swissspidy | 169 | Switzerland | |
| ntsekouras | 158 | Automattic | Greece |
| andrewserong | 137 | Automattic | Australia |
| ramonopoly | 136 | Automattic | Australia |
| tyxla | 132 | Automattic | Bulgaria |
| isabel_brison | 124 | Automattic | Australia |
| oandregal | 112 | Automattic | Spain |
| poena | 111 | Yoast | Sweden |
| richtabor | 111 | Automattic | United States |
| audrasjb | 108 | Whodunit | France |
| jorgefilipecosta | 106 | Automattic | Portugal |
| talldanwp | 101 | Automattic | Australia |
| jonsurrell | 95 | Automattic | Spain |
| aaronrobertshaw | 93 | Automattic | Australia |
| afercia | 91 | Yoast | Italy |
| gziolo | 91 | Automattic | Poland |
| fabiankaegy | 84 | 10up | Germany |
| scruffian | 84 | Automattic | United Kingdom |
| cbravobernal | 82 | Automattic | Spain |
| sabernhardt | 78 | NC | United States |
| desrosj | 75 | Bluehost | United States |
| 0mirka00 | 73 | Automattic | Japan |
| annezazu | 73 | Automattic | United States |
Core committers stats
Core Committers are developers who have commit access to the WordPress codebase. About 50 people are core committers, but not all committers are currently active.
Commits by Company
Committers by Company
Commits by Country
Committers By Country
Five for the Future Data
Five for the Future (Sponsored) Contributions Across Companies
Five for the Future (Sponsored) Contributors Across Companies
52 out of 191 pledged companies (20.6%) contributed at least one patch to WordPress 6.6
26.5% of all 6.6 contributors are officially pledged through Five for the Future. They received 75.5% of all props.
| Company Name | Total Contributions | Sponsored Contributors | Commits | Committers | Noteworthy Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automattic | 3562 | 67 | 120 | 11 | 33 |
| GoDaddy | 335 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 3 |
| Yoast | 396 | 7 | 123 | 1 | 3 |
| 217 | 4 | 67 | 4 | 2 | |
| Whodunit | 109 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 1 |
| 10up | 216 | 8 | 27 | 2 | 4 |
| Bluehost | 76 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 1 |
| Elementor | 69 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| IT Path Solutions | 62 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Human Made | 46 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Awesome Motive | 48 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 0 |
| RavLet Services | 27 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Emilia Capital | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WP Engine | 35 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Howard Development & Consulting | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LUBUS | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| rtCamp | 48 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Technostacks Infotech Pvt ltd | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WebToffee | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hostinger | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| KrishaWeb Technologies Pvt Ltd | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Multidots | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rank Math | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Awsm Innovations | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| required gmbh | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AuthLab | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| HAMWORKS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| mgn | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Parship Group | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ServMask, Inc | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |