WordPress

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68,899
across 217 public repos
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#373
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.4%
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Repositories with 50+ stars

WordPress's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
2,154

WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to...

PHP 21,531
4,704

The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.

TypeScript 11,788
18,713

Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library. It simplifies how you interact with other sites and takes away all your worries.

PHP 3,572
19,079

WordPress Develop, Git-ified. Synced from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please include a...

PHP 3,509
23,863

PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions

PHP 2,843
28,888

Expert-level WordPress knowledge for AI coding assistants - blocks, themes, plugins, and best practices

JavaScript 2,350
34,239

Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP

JavaScript 1,989
35,642

An MCP adapter that bridges the Abilities API to the Model Context Protocol, enabling MCP clients to discover and invoke WordPress plugin, theme, and core abilities programmatically.

PHP 1,914
58,069

Examples for extending WordPress/Gutenberg with blocks.

JavaScript 1,163
78,954

Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress.

PHP 828
95,269

A simple theme for testing Gutenberg.

PHP 676
96,316

Theme Test Data

668
109,339

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. This monorepo includes all application code.

Python 582
112,193

Dashicons, the WordPress admin icon font. For the official resource, please see the WordPress Developer Hub.

JavaScript 566
115,885

Our book about WordPress. Volume 1, first ten years

Python 546
117,670

Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.

CSS 537
133,207

Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Group, which is a collection of standalone performance modules.

PHP 467
145,053

A WordPress plugin to create block themes

JavaScript 424
156,884

Twenty Twenty-Two, the default WordPress theme that will launch with WordPress 5.9.

PHP 388
157,228

AI features and experiments for WordPress. Modular framework for testing AI capabilities.

PHP 387
162,846

Theme Check plugin

PHP 372
165,209

Feature Plugin to add SQLite support to WordPress. Under Development.

PHP 366
165,627

A repository for the new Plugin Check plugin from the WordPress Performance and Plugins Team.

PHP 365
177,208

Practical examples for building WordPress blocks and extending the Editor.

JavaScript 338
177,704

WordPress.org Learn - The canonical source for the code and content behind https://learn.WordPress.org

PHP 337
184,819

Twenty Sixteen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

CSS 322
188,411

Twenty Nineteen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

CSS 315
189,448

A provider agnostic PHP AI client SDK to communicate with any generative AI models of various capabilities using a uniform API.

PHP 313
198,696

Twenty Twenty is included in Core as of WordPress 5.3 🎉 To report any issues, please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

CSS 296
208,362

OpenStation is a WordPress plugin that turns /wp-admin into a desktop-style interface with movable windows and a dock menu. It’s opt-in per user, doesn’t change core, and fully reverts on...

TypeScript 280
238,325

Documentation parser powering developer.wordpress.org

PHP 239
254,215

Demo of the Interactivity API

PHP 221
260,992

A WordPress API for declaring and discovering plugin, theme, and core abilities in a human- and machine-readable way.

PHP 214
273,711

WP Feature Notifications - a proposal to modernise the way in which WordPress handles emails, admin notices and user notifications

PHP 202
279,478 TypeScript 197
280,677 PHP 196
290,546

Health Check is a WordPress plugin that will perform a number of checks on your WordPress install to detect common configuration errors and known issues.

PHP 188
294,382

A collection of scripts that provision the official WordPress.org websites into a Varying Vagrant Vagrants installation.

PHP 185
294,382 PHP 185
304,015

Twenty Seventeen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

CSS 178
306,862

Ongoing development of Twenty Twenty-One, the new default WordPress theme slated for 5.6.

PHP 176
314,358

A plugin to restore the Classic Editor in WordPress.

JavaScript 171
323,871

WordPress.org Meta, Git-ified. Synced from git://meta.git.wordpress.org/ This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress Meta subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing...

PHP 165
323,871 PHP 165
332,296

WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress.

PHP 160
350,412

WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook. This handbook will have the most technical, general, documentation about WordPress.

150
377,307

A fork of the long-abandoned SWFUpload project, maintained by WordPress and others to ensure that a secure version of SWFUpload exists. Report security vulnerabilities to...

ActionScript 137
379,574

WordPress.org Plugin Directory Guidelines

136
379,574

Secure Custom Fields

PHP 136
381,784

The WordPress Block Pattern Directory

PHP 135
388,724

Browse the WordPress Web.

JavaScript 132
391,058

Test your WordPress plugin with Plugin Check

TypeScript 131
403,472

An AI client and API for WordPress to communicate with any generative AI models of various capabilities using a uniform API.

PHP 126
422,176

Blueprints gallery and examples

HTML 119
425,075

Twenty Twenty-Three, the default WordPress theme sporting many styles that will launch with WordPress 6.1.

HTML 118
430,810

The WordPress user documentation portal

PHP 116
452,655

Issue Tracker for the WordPress Documentation team.

Shell 109
459,226

⚠️ WARNING: This repository is no longer active. The development and discussions have been moved to the Gutenberg repository.

PHP 107
469,582

[Archived] Theme for browsehappy.com. Now maintained in the WordPress Meta repository: github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org

PHP 104
484,538

The WordPress Security White Paper, available directly on the WordPress.org site at https://wordpress.org/about/security/

HTML 100
492,019

A collection of Block Themes built by the WordPress community.

HTML 98
495,784

WordPress Hosting Team Handbook

PHP 97
508,066

An API that allows consent management plugins to work together through a standardized interface. Planned for adoption to WordPress Core.

PHP 94
516,717

WordPress Coding Standards Docs

92
530,469

The WordPress Importer

PHP 89
535,290

Collection of JS modules and tools for WordPress development

JavaScript 88
540,159

Slides: Presentations with WordPress

JavaScript 87
560,658

Third-party articles and specific tutorials on PHP upgrades.

83
560,658

A block-based child theme for WordPress.org, plus local environment

PHP 83
566,050

The Openverse API allows programmatic access to search for CC-licensed and public domain digital media.

Python 82
577,196

Development of the Global Header and other mu-plugins used on WordPress.org.

PHP 80
588,876 PHP 78
613,506

The gateway to the Openverse. Openverse is a search tool for CC-licensed and public domain content across the internet.

Vue 74
620,073 73
620,073

The official WordPress AI benchmark. Evaluate how well language models understand WordPress development—from core APIs and coding standards to plugin architecture and security best practices.

Python 73
626,819

A public domain marketing flyer/brochure about the reasons to use WordPress, brought to you by some members of the WordPress community.

HTML 72
640,697

Feature plugin for testing and experimenting with the "loading" HTML attribute.

PHP 70
640,697 PHP 70
640,697

WordPress Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies

PHP 70
648,239

Docker images for use with the Core local development environment.

Dockerfile 69
655,643

An experiment.

PHP 68
663,597

Ipsum is a blank canvas built around the blogging experience, our proposal for what a default theme should be.

PHP 67
671,357

Desktop app that sets up a WordPress core development environment with no prerequisites, applies the work already on a Trac ticket, and submits a contribution back.

JavaScript 66
679,510

WordPress.org Developer theme

PHP 65
687,784

Standalone, dependency-free PHP libraries for WordPress and PHP projects — XML, ZIP, Git, HTTP, Markdown, Filesystem, and more.

PHP 64
713,786

Press This is a little tool that lets you grab bits of the web and create new posts with ease. It will even allow you to choose from images or videos included on the page and use them in your...

JavaScript 61
713,786

Identifies and collects data on cc-licensed content across web crawl data and public apis.

Python 61
742,438

Plugins and themes for the Five for the Future subsite

PHP 58
752,797

Feature plugin building a UI for opting-in to plugin, theme, and core auto-updates.

PHP 57
752,797

Welcome to the WordPress Plugin Developer Handbook; are you ready to jump right in to the world of WordPress plugins?

57
774,411

Information page about PHP versions and updates, to be used through the WordPress.org project.

55
774,411

Style Guide for WordPress documentation.

55
774,411

A repository of feature examples for block themes.

PHP 55
797,198 JavaScript 53
797,198

Our book about WordPress. Version 2

53
821,529

Patch Trac based projects

JavaScript 51
834,146

In this GitHub space, WordPress team coordinates content to be published on the Developer Blog. Discussions and montly meetings (first Thu - 15:00 UTC) in WP Slack #core-dev-blog

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63k–100k stars: 206 organizations, including WordPress

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Where the stars are

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  1. PHP 42.1k stars, 61% · 49 repos
  2. TypeScript 12.4k stars, 18% · 4 repos
  3. JavaScript 7.5k stars, 11% · 14 repos
  4. CSS 1.6k stars, 2% · 5 repos
  5. Python 1.3k stars, 2% · 5 repos
  6. HTML 507 stars, 1% · 5 repos
  7. ActionScript 137 stars, <1% · 1 repo
  8. Shell 109 stars, <1% · 1 repo

and 2 more languages

When they were made

97 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2011 and 2026

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WordPress, #2,154 of all repos, 31% of stars
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