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Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in our bug tracker.
Want to contribute? Get started quickly with our tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on our reports page, like patches needing testing, and on our feature projects page.
Other questions? We also have a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

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
Administration	360	+2	30 !!
Bootstrap/Load	64		8 !!
Build/Test Tools	169		32 !!
Bundled Theme	306	+7	53 !!
Cache API	38	-2	4 !!
Comments	178		23 !!
— Pings/Trackbacks	25		5 !!
Cron API	23		3 !!
Customize	204	+1	11 !!
Database	132		41 !!
Date/Time	36		4 !!
Editor	345	+4	55 !!
— Autosave	18		8 !!
— Quick/Bulk Edit	52		6 !!
— TinyMCE	9		1 !!
Export	39	+1	7 !!
External Libraries	34	-1	5 !!
Feeds	53		2 !!
Filesystem API	49		9 !!
Formatting	183		34 !!
— Charset	8		3 !!
— Emoji	10		2 !!
— Shortcodes	45		12 !!
General	424	-9	32 !!
Help/About	14		2 !!
HTTP API	44		12 !!
I18N	108	-1	8 !!
Import	62	-1	10 !!
Mail	48		9 !!
Media	635	+1	46 !!
— Embeds	81		18 !!
— Gallery	40		8 !!
— Upload	63		10 !!
Networks and Sites	155		26 !!
Options, Meta APIs	119		34 !!
Permalinks	119		26 !!
— Canonical	80		13 !!
— Rewrite Rules	92		22 !!
Plugins	223		36 !!
Posts, Post Types	382	+3	69 !!
— Post Formats	15		5 !!
— Post Thumbnails	15		3 !!
— Revisions	37		2 !!
Privacy	91	+4	4 !!
Query	226		53 !!
REST API	115	+1	18 !!
— Application Passwords	10		1 !!
Script Loader	81	+1	20 !!
Security	62		10 !!
Site Health	88		7 !!
Sitemaps	19		3 !!
Taxonomy	223	+1	52 !!
Themes	225	-2	31 !!
— Menus	162		10 !!
— Widgets	158	+4	20 !!
Toolbar	34	+1
Upgrade/Install	243		39 !!
Users	278		61 !!
— Login and Registration	141		25 !!
— Role/Capability	72		17 !!
XML-RPC	36

Component

Tickets

7 Days

0 Replies

Maintainers

Administration

360

30 !!

Bootstrap/Load

8 !!