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
Administration460 +252 !!
AI15ImageImageImage
— Abilities API13 +21 !!ImageImageImage
Bootstrap/Load421 !!ImageImage
Build/Test Tools219 -116 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
Bundled Theme217 -1ImageImageImageImage
Cache API523 !!
Comments204 +127 !!Image
— Notes2 +1ImageImageImage
— Pings/Trackbacks233 !!
Cron API262 !!ImageImage
Customize1403 !!Image
Database16445 !!Image
Date/Time40ImageImage
Editor560 -4117 !!ImageImage
— Autosave209 !!ImageImage
— Quick/Bulk Edit483 !!ImageImage
— TinyMCE10 +1Image
Export4910 !!Image
External Libraries23 -11 !!ImageImageImage
Feeds606 !!ImageImage
Filesystem API495 !!
Formatting222 -231 !!ImageImage
— Charset13 +11 !!Image
— Emoji16ImageImageImage
— Shortcodes5512 !!Image
General771 +194 !!ImageImageImage
Help/About16ImageImage
HTML API171 !!ImageImage
HTTP API476 !!Image
I18N801 !!ImageImageImage
Import559 !!
Interactivity API7 +1ImageImageImage
Mail17Image
Media625 +127 !!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage
— Embeds9019 !!ImageImageImage
— Gallery299 !!Image
— Upload7015 !!ImageImageImage
Networks and Sites165ImageImageImage
Options, Meta APIs14637 !!ImageImage
Permalinks132 -131 !!ImageImage
— Canonical8812 !!
— Rewrite Rules9525 !!
Plugins27117 !!
Posts, Post Types277 +4
— Post Formats13
— Post Thumbnails152 !!Image
— Revisions36 -14 !!Image
Privacy91 -11 !!Image
Query27661 !!
REST API181 +223 !!ImageImageImageImageImage
— Application Passwords14 -1ImageImage
Script Loader9110 !!ImageImage
Security5612 !!ImageImage
Site Health116 +15 !!ImageImageImage
Sitemaps22 -13 !!ImageImage
Taxonomy247 +150 !!
Themes231 +127 !!Image
— Menus17721 !!ImageImage
— Widgets16131 !!ImageImage
Toolbar41Image
Upgrade/Install290 +123 !!ImageImageImageImageImage
Users29258 !!
— Login and Registration149 +117 !!Image
— Role/Capability7414 !!ImageImageImage
XML-RPC36 +11 !!