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
Administration414 +1258 !!
AI12
Abilities API15 +1
Bootstrap/Load411 !!
Build/Test Tools201 -117 !!
Bundled Theme218
Cache API493 !!
Comments19928 !!
Notes1
Pings/Trackbacks263 !!
Cron API252 !!
Customize1464 !!
Database16146 !!
Date/Time38
Editor532 +4114 !!
Autosave209 !!
Quick/Bulk Edit49 +14 !!
TinyMCE7
Export4912 !!
External Libraries251 !!
Feeds606 !!
Filesystem API50 +15 !!
Formatting22937 !!
Charset111 !!
Emoji13
Shortcodes5413 !!
General726 +297 !!
Help/About16
HTML API16 +11 !!
HTTP API457 !!
I18N832 !!
Import559 !!
Interactivity API52 !!
Mail15
Media618 +129 !!
Embeds8918 !!
Gallery2911 !!
Upload6715 !!
Networks and Sites163 +121 !!
Options, Meta APIs14338 !!
Permalinks134 +133 !!
Canonical8714 !!
Rewrite Rules9425 !!
Plugins267 +216 !!
Posts, Post Types269 +11 !!
Post Formats131 !!
Post Thumbnails152 !!
Revisions36 +13 !!
Privacy104 +12 !!
Query27464 !!
REST API172 +124 !!
Application Passwords151 !!
Script Loader8910 !!
Security5313 !!
Site Health1136 !!
Sitemaps235 !!
Taxonomy24653 !!
Themes231 -127 !!
Menus16823 !!
Widgets159 +130 !!
Toolbar39 +33 !!
Upgrade/Install27823 !!
Users28858 !!
Login and Registration14818 !!
Role/Capability7714 !!
XML-RPC321 !!