In July 2022, the WordPress community participated in a lively discussion around a more user-friendly name to give the suite of features and tools known as Full Site Editor. With community feedback in mind, it will simply be referred to as the “Site Editor,” going forward. Thank you to everyone who voiced their points of view on a topic that touches every part of the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.
Landing on Site Editor was the result of two key considerations. Firstly, Site Editor offers a clear and simple description to users with a range of technical skills. Secondly, there was substantial support for Site Editor, particularly from the Polyglot community, as the term that translates most effectively into hundreds of different languages.As we heard at WordCamp US 2022, better multilingual support is an important future direction for WordPress, so choosing easily translated terms is an important step.
Site Editor also keeps the spirit of its original FSE codename as the powerful, full collection of features it encompasses. As a bonus, it also doesn’t cost us anything from an SEO or marketing standpoint, since it’s a simplification of the existing term. 🙂
You’ll still see or hear instances of FSE around. There is no need to erase it from our story. Going forward, you’ll hear more people and WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ announcements refer to the Site Editor. You’re invited to begin using the term Site Editor immediately and update areas within the documentation to reflect that change.
p.s. – Is this a rebranding? I wouldn’t say so, myself. FSE was an easy way to refer to a complex, new thing and didn’t make much sense as a branded term. This is just an update to the way we’re talking about that complex thing.
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 272 (change: -10)
GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 282 (change: -4)
GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/
Here’s some aggregate data for September 2025 about WordPress CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..
Please note:
These data only include code contributions to WordPress codebase, not contributions on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ repositories such as GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ (but it still include Gutenberg package merges and related backports).
The committers data only includes commits to trunk. Branch backports are not taken into account for now.
In September 2025, the WordPress Core team shipped 189 commits (+16 compared to last month). 156 tickets were opened (+25), 182 tickets were closed (-20), and 14 were reopened (-12).
This month, 161 people contributed to WordPress source code using Trac (-1 compared to last month), and 35 people (-2)made their very first contribution to WordPress Core ♥️
Components activity
How did September’s commits break out by Core Component?
The most prolific components were:
Component
Count
%
Build/Test Tools
9
10%
Docs
9
10%
Code Modernization
5
6%
Posts, Post Types
5
6%
Editor
8
9%
External Libraries
4
4%
BlockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Bindings
4
4%
Database
4
4%
Bundled Themes
4
4%
General
3
3%
Menus
3
3%
Charset
3
3%
Upgrade/Install
3
3%
Script Loader
3
3%
September 2025 Core commits distribution across WordPress Core components
Contributors data retrieved from WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ 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”, “Unicorn land” or “Planes, Trains, and Busses” are not known countries 🙂).
Countries stats
In September, people from at least 27 countries contributed to WordPress Core.
The next graphs show the number of props received by country and the number of contributors from each country. The top 10 countries, based on the number of props received, are these (evolution since last month is provided between parenthesis):
Country
Contributions
Contributors
USA
108
37
India
96
41
Russia
59
2
Spain
39
4
Australia
23
5
Italy
20
4
France
16
8
Philippines
8
1
Switzerland
8
1
UK
7
4
September 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by country. Click to open in a new tab.
Five for the Future related stats
In September, people from at least 57 different companies/organizations contributed to WordPress Core.
The next graphs show the number of props received by organization and the number of contributors from each organization. The top 10 organizations, based on the number of props received, are these (evolution since last month is provided between parenthesis):
Company
Contributions
Contributors
Automattic
86
18
Yoast
61
3
rtCamp
38
16
Human Made
18
3
Whodunit
14
6
Google
14
3
The Open Sea
13
1
Accessible WD
11
1
10up
11
3
Bluehost
9
1
September 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by organization. Click to open in a new tab.
What did September hold for Core Committers?
14 Core Committers committed code to the trunk branch in WordPress SVNSVNApache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. repository this month (-5 compared to last month).
Of the 85 commits to the trunk branch (-6 compared to the previous month), 33 (39%) were made by people working at Yoast, 14 (16%) from employees of Automattic.
PluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Status Change Stats
Plugins requested : 283
Plugins rejected : 13
Plugins closed : 66
Plugins approved : 139
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 3306
(older than 7 days ago)** : 2958
(2025-09-15 – 2025-09-21) : 259
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 184
(pending; replied to)* : 3122
(pending; waiting on author)* : 2780
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 289
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 53
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 944
New Conversations: 507
Customers: 835
Conversations per Day: 118
Busiest Day: Wednesday
Messages Received: 554
Replies Sent: 1350
Emails Created: 389
* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval ** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today
“(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).
Current totals (
New/Changed two weeks:
Closed two weeks (after testing):
Closing tickets that are reporting personal issues or duplicates early saves time of contributors to do something productive.
