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
Administration401 +454 !!
AI17 +24 !!ImageImageImageImage
Bootstrap/Load40ImageImage
Build/Test Tools19815 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImage
Bundled Theme221 +4ImageImageImageImage
Cache API483 !!
Comments19827 !!Image
Notes1ImageImageImage
Pings/Trackbacks24 +14 !!
Cron API252 !!Image
Customize144 -25 !!Image
Database16247 !!Image
Date/Time38ImageImage
Editor519 -1113 !!ImageImageImage
Autosave209 !!ImageImage
Quick/Bulk Edit484 !!ImageImageImageImage
TinyMCE7Image
Export4913 !!Image
External Libraries251 !!ImageImageImage
Feeds606 !!ImageImage
Filesystem API495 !!Image
Formatting22840 !!ImageImage
Charset101 !!Image
Emoji13ImageImageImage
Shortcodes5413 !!Image
General708 -397 !!ImageImage
Help/About16ImageImageImage
HTML API151 !!ImageImage
HTTP API457 !!Image
I18N751 !!ImageImageImage
Import559 !!
Interactivity API62 !!ImageImageImage
Mail14Image
Media612 +129 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
Embeds8417 !!ImageImageImage
Gallery2911 !!Image
Upload6515 !!ImageImageImage
Networks and Sites16221 !!ImageImageImage
Options, Meta APIs14338 !!ImageImage
Permalinks134 -134 !!ImageImage
Canonical8714 !!
Rewrite Rules9425 !!
Plugins260 +116 !!
Posts, Post Types263 +3Image
Post Formats12
Post Thumbnails152 !!Image
Revisions374 !!Image
Privacy1023 !!ImageImageImage
Query27264 !!
REST API170 +124 !!ImageImageImageImageImage
Application Passwords16ImageImage
Script Loader91 +210 !!ImageImage
Security50 +112 !!ImageImage
Site Health110 -16 !!ImageImageImageImage
Sitemaps235 !!ImageImage
Taxonomy245 +153 !!
Themes232 -227 !!ImageImage
Menus170 +123 !!ImageImage
Widgets15932 !!ImageImage
Toolbar32Image
Upgrade/Install28023 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
Users286 -159 !!
Login and Registration14819 !!Image
Role/Capability7614 !!ImageImageImageImage
XML-RPC321 !!Image