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<\/p>\nAs an open source project, the WordPress software relies on contributions from individuals and businesses alike to remain a healthy and innovative ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Individuals can contribute in a variety of ways, including writing code, organizing meetups, and working on WordPress’s accessibility. Companies can contribute by permitting their employees to allocate part-time or full-time hours to WordPress.<\/p>\n
For the latest WordPress release, Automattic provided over 3,500 core contributions, over half of all WordPress 6.6 contributions, at the hands of 105 individual contributors.<\/p>\n
The following image illustrates the contributions from companies to WordPress core development.<\/p>\n
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The following image illustrates the contributions from individuals to WordPress core development.<\/p>\n
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Given that WordPress powers over 40% of your favorite websites, it’s in the best interest of every company that benefits from WordPress to give back to the project and community.<\/p>\n
This idea is codified in WordPress’s Five for the Future initiative. Any company that profits from the software\u2014including every business offering hosting for WordPress\u2014is encouraged to put 5% of its resources back into WordPress development.<\/p>\n
At Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, we take this responsibility very seriously.<\/p>\n
Automattic employs just under 2,000 people. Over 100 of them work on the WordPress project full-time. In terms of workforce hours, this puts the company at almost exactly 5%.<\/p>\n
The following image illustrates Automattic’s contributions to the WordPress project.<\/p>\n
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Though this is not a requirement and it is not policed by the WordPress Foundation, every company that profits from WordPress should think about the long-term health and vibrancy of the WordPress ecosystem. At Automattic and WordPress.com, we’re proud to give back and to constantly be thinking about bettering WordPress as a whole when we’re working on features, squashing bugs, and generally doing our best to democratize publishing for the entire world.<\/p>\n
As a customer\u2014whether you’re a developer at an agency or an aspiring creator\u2014you have a say in the future of WordPress. You have options when it comes to hosting. We recommend that the dollars you spend go towards a WordPress host that acts as a good steward of open source philosophy\u2014like WordPress.com.<\/p>\n\n The Importance of Contributions to the WordPress Ecosystem As an open source project, the WordPress software relies on contributions from individuals and businesses alike to remain a healthy and innovative…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/blog-header403x-22.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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