Contribution Stats for WordPress 6.2 « Dolphy »

WordPress 6.2 « Dolphy » was released on March 29, 2023. This version is named « Dolphy », after the American jazzer pianist Eric Allan Dolphy Jr.

I was involved in this release as Tech Lead and as a core committer. It was a pleasure to work with the release squad. A big thank you to all the talented people who worked hard to put together WP 6.2 ❤️

As for previous releases, let’s have a look on a few stats about this release.

In the past, I already published some contributions stats for versions 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1. I did it again for WP 6.2, so we can have an eye on the relative « influence » of countries and companies on WordPress Core.

Before diving into WordPress 6.2 Core contributions stats, I wanted to share a few disclaimers, for better context:

• These stats were generated after the last Release Candidate of WP 6.2. Thanks to Jon who collected the props list for the release squad.
• These statistics only relate to Core contributions (= props gained for source code contributions) of WordPress. There is a lot of other types of contributions, not listed here: marketing, communication, translation, testing…
• To get these stats, I parsed the WordPress.org profile page of each contributor to get some public informations about them: country, employer, and wether they already contributed to WordPress Core or not.
• It includes both Core contributions on Trac and Gutenberg pull requests on GitHub.
• Those stats are based on what’s declared in each contributors’s wp.org profile. Users with empty profile informations are not taken into account.

WordPress 6.2 overall stats

Country ranking by number of contributions

Country ranking by number of contributors

Company ranking by contributions

Automattic is still the most prolific company with employees credited in no less than 1793 contributions (by 82 contributors), and is followed by plugin editor Yoast with 712 contributions (by 11 contributors) and Whodunit French agency (280 contributions by 4 people). Next, we have the international WP agencies 10up (244 contributions by 18 people), hosting companies like GoDaddy (156 contributions) or Bluehost (111), a freelancer Advies en zo (130), and Google with 110 contributions.

Worth noting that major stakeholders can still be categorized in three sorts of companies: agencies, plugins/themes editors and hosting companies. And of course, well… Automattic 😜

In the graphic below, you’ll see all the company credited in WordPress 6.2 and the number of contributions of their employees.

Company ranking by contributors

Of the 145 identified companies that contributed to WordPress 6.2, Automattic had by far the largest number of contributors, with 82 people involved. For the first time, WPDeveloper is the second biggest company in terms of contributors, with 35 people. 10up comes third with 18 people. AuthLab and Yoast come fourth with 11 people. Then, we have Multidots and rtCamp, with more than 6 contributors.

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Thank you to everyone who helped
to release WordPress 6.2.
Big or small, each of the above company contributes
to the Five for the future initiative 💙

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Individuals ranking – WordPress 6.2

Here is the top 30 of WordPress 6.2 contributors. You can also checkout the full table on this spreadsheet.

Contributor	Contributions	Country	Company
sergeybiryukov	448	Russia	Yoast
audrasjb	277	France	Whodunit
tyxla	227	Bulgaria	Automattic
costdev	149
mamaduka	147	Georgia	GoDaddy
hellofromtonya	134	United States	Automattic
poena	130	Sweden	Yoast
jrf	130	Netherlands	Advies en zo
scruffian	116		Automattic
desrosj	111	United States	Bluehost
aristath	108	Greece	Yoast
mukesh27	104	India	10up
ntsekouras	102	Greece	Automattic
peterwilsoncc	99	Australia	10up
wildworks	92	Japan
youknowriad	86	Algeria	Automattic
mciampini	75		Automattic
justinahinon	71	Benin	WebDevStudios
flixos90	69	United States	Google
getdave	68
spacedmonkey	66	United Kingdom	XWP
sabernhardt	61	United States
aaronrobertshaw	52		Automattic
azaozz	51	Canada	Automattic
ramonopoly	50
andraganescu	50	Romania	Automattic
jsnajdr	49
jorgefilipecosta	49	Portugal	Automattic
oandregal	48	Spain	Automattic
0mirka00	48	Japan	Automattic