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WordPress Good First Issues for PHP

PHP issues that involve WordPress: the project is tagged with it, or the issue itself is about it.

WordPress

Open issues
17.4k
New this week
200
Nobody on it yet
15.7k
Average difficulty
3.7/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.7/5 across 15,859 issues.
  • 11% of 15,859 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Sep 27, 2026.

About WordPress

WordPress is a content management system written in PHP, first released in 2003. Its core, themes and plugins are open source, and contributions also include translation and documentation.

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How many WordPress issues are open here?
17,426 open issues: 200 opened in the last seven days, and 15,714 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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