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
Administration454 +155 !!
AI16 +1ImageImageImageImage
Abilities API14 +11 !!ImageImageImage
Bootstrap/Load411 !!ImageImage
Build/Test Tools211 +516 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImage
Bundled Theme218ImageImageImageImage
Cache API51 +33 !!
Comments20228 !!Image
Notes1ImageImageImage
Pings/Trackbacks243 !!
Cron API26 +12 !!Image
Customize144 +23 !!Image
Database161 -245 !!Image
Date/Time39 +1ImageImage
Editor547 -3114 !!ImageImageImage
Autosave209 !!ImageImage
Quick/Bulk Edit484 !!ImageImageImageImage
TinyMCE8Image
Export4912 !!Image
External Libraries25 +11 !!ImageImageImage
Feeds596 !!ImageImage
Filesystem API515 !!Image
Formatting230 +136 !!ImageImage
Charset111 !!Image
Emoji13ImageImageImage
Shortcodes5413 !!Image
General745 -196 !!ImageImageImage
Help/About17 -2ImageImageImage
HTML API171 !!ImageImage
HTTP API47 +16 !!Image
I18N82 +2ImageImageImage
Import559 !!
Interactivity API51 !!ImageImageImage
Mail16Image
Media611 +226 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
Embeds8818 !!ImageImageImage
Gallery2810 !!Image
Upload6915 !!ImageImageImage
Networks and Sites166 +117 !!ImageImageImage
Options, Meta APIs14338 !!ImageImage
Permalinks13432 !!ImageImage
Canonical8814 !!
Rewrite Rules9525 !!
Plugins269 -117 !!
Posts, Post Types273 +41 !!Image
Post Formats13 +1
Post Thumbnails152 !!Image
Revisions363 !!Image
Privacy1021 !!ImageImage
Query27463 !!
REST API180 +423 !!ImageImageImageImageImage
Application Passwords15ImageImage
Script Loader89 +110 !!ImageImage
Security5413 !!ImageImage
Site Health111 -36 !!ImageImageImageImage
Sitemaps243 !!ImageImage
Taxonomy24651 !!
Themes23027 !!ImageImage
Menus16823 !!ImageImage
Widgets161 +131 !!ImageImage
Toolbar39 +1Image
Upgrade/Install281 +223 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
Users290 +158 !!
Login and Registration151 +118 !!Image
Role/Capability7614 !!ImageImageImageImage
XML-RPC321 !!Image