Contribution Stats for WordPress 6.1 « Misha »

WordPress 6.1 « Misha » was released on November 1st, 2022. This version is named « Misha », after the ukrainian jazz pianist Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin.

I was involved in this release as Triage Lead and as a core committer. It was a pleasure to work with the release squad. A big thank you to that bunch of super talented people who worked hard to put together WP 6.1 ❤️

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 and 6.0. I did it again for WP 6.1, so we can have an eye on the relative “influence” of countries and companies on WordPress Core.

Before diving into WordPress 6.1 Core contributions stats, I wanted to share a few disclaimers, for better context:

• These stats were generated after the last Release Candidate of WP 6.1. Thanks to Jonathan 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 6.1 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 1977 contributions (by 94 contributors), and is followed by plugin editor Yoast with 740 contributions (by 16 contributors) and Whodunit French agency (359 contributions by 6 people). Next, we have international WP agencies like 10up (285 by 26 people), XWP (95) or Human Made (79), hosting companies like GoDaddy (204 contributions) or Bluehost (150), a freelancer (!) Advies en zo (105), and Google with 79 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 6.1 and the number of contributions of their employees.

Company ranking by contributors

Of the 180 identified companies that contributed to WordPress 6.1, Automattic had by far the largest number of contributors, with 70 people involved. 10up is the second biggest contributors with 26 people. WPDeveloper and Yoast come third with 16 people. Multidots come fourth with 13 people. Then, we have a group of companies with more than 5 contributors: WPEngine, Human Made, Whodunit, rtCamp, and AuthLab.

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Thank you to everyone who helped
to release WordPress 6.1.
Big or small, each of the above company contributes
to the Five for the future initiative 💙

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Individuals ranking – WordPress 6.1

Here is the top 30 of WordPress 6.1 contributors. You can also checkout the full table on this spreadsheet.

Username	Contributions	Country	Company
sergeybiryukov	584	Russia	Yoast
audrasjb	347	France	Whodunit
tyxla	213	Bulgaria	Automattic
mamaduka	183	Georgia	GoDaddy
costdev	166	Ireland	NC
desrosj	147	United States	Bluehost
peterwilsoncc	145	Australia	10up
aaronrobertshaw	114	NC	NC
gziolo	114	Poland	Automattic
0mirka00	105	Japan	Automattic
bernhard-reiter	105	NC	Automattic
jrf	105	Netherlands	Advies en zo
ramonopoly	102	NC	NC
hellofromtonya	99	United States	Automattic
spacedmonkey	89	United Kingdom	XWP
ntsekouras	88	Greece	Automattic
davidbaumwald	86	United States	Dream Encode
mciampini	86	NC	Automattic
mukesh27	84	India	10up
andrewserong	81	Australia	Automattic
glendaviesnz	80	NC	NC
scruffian	80	NC	Automattic
talldanwp	74	Australia	Automattic
sabernhardt	67	United States	NC
johnbillion	66	Italy	Human Made
zieladam	66	Poland	Automattic
jorgefilipecosta	59	Portugal	Automattic
aristath	58	Greece	Yoast
joen	54	Denmark	Automattic
poena	54	Sweden	Yoast