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..

Component	Tickets	7 Days	0 Replies	Maintainers
Administration	381	-1	51 !!
Bootstrap/Load	40
Build/Test Tools	192	+1	15 !!
Bundled Theme	248	-1	2 !!
Cache API	49		3 !!
Comments	198	-1	26 !!
— Pings/Trackbacks	23		3 !!
Cron API	25		2 !!
Customize	150		12 !!
Database	161		50 !!
Date/Time	38
Editor	518	+2	116 !!
— Autosave	20		9 !!
— Quick/Bulk Edit	49	-1	4 !!
— TinyMCE	5
Export	50		13 !!
External Libraries	29		2 !!
Feeds	60		7 !!
Filesystem API	50		4 !!
Formatting	226	+1	37 !!
— Charset	10		1 !!
— Emoji	11
— Shortcodes	54		13 !!
General	700	-4	92 !!
Help/About	17
HTML API	15
HTTP API	45		7 !!
I18N	74		1 !!
Import	54		8 !!
Interactivity API	6		2 !!
Mail	18
Media	607	-1	28 !!
— Embeds	85	-1	17 !!
— Gallery	29		12 !!
— Upload	66		15 !!
Networks and Sites	167	-1	21 !!
Options, Meta APIs	143		38 !!
Permalinks	136	-1	34 !!
— Canonical	86		14 !!
— Rewrite Rules	93		26 !!
Plugins	256	-3	18 !!
Posts, Post Types	308	-3
— Post Formats	12
— Post Thumbnails	15		2 !!
— Revisions	37	+1	4 !!
Privacy	101	-1	3 !!
Query	273		65 !!
REST API	165	-1	24 !!
— Application Passwords	16
Script Loader	97	+1	12 !!
Security	50		11 !!
Site Health	114	+2	7 !!
Sitemaps	22		4 !!
Taxonomy	246	-1	54 !!
Themes	239		30 !!
— Menus	174	-1	21 !!
— Widgets	162		31 !!
Toolbar	28
Upgrade/Install	276	-2	25 !!
Users	292		60 !!
— Login and Registration	150		19 !!
— Role/Capability	75		14 !!
XML-RPC	32		1 !!