Image Bijay Yadav 1:46 pm on August 11, 2026
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Themes team update August 11, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 26 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 4 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 104 tickets are assigned.
    • 12 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 65 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 85 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 103 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 3 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 43 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1221 tickets were opened
  • 1385 tickets were closed
    • 1363 tickets were made live.
      • 49 new Themes were made live.
      • 1314 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 43 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 22 tickets were not approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 10 (@acosmin, @aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @luzuk, @meerab123, @nitspatel, @productiveminds, @vowelweb)

ii)  BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 39 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 31 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 14Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 0
Resolved 7Resolved on First Reply 71%

iv) Extras

  • Create Block Theme pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 14 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Francisco Torres 9:53 pm on August 10, 2026
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Plugins Team: 10 Aug 2026

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 737
  • Plugins rejected : 29
  • Plugins closed : 92
  • Plugins approved : 310

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5429
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 4478
    • (2026-08-03 – 2026-08-09) : 698
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 504
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4925
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 4163
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 556
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 206

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1764
  • New Conversations: 936
  • Customers: 1493
  • Conversations per Day: 220
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 1247
  • Replies Sent: 2684
  • Emails Created: 678

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Image Bijay Yadav 5:32 pm on August 4, 2026
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Themes team update August 4, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 25 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 3 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 116 tickets are assigned.
    • 16 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 59 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 86 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 114 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 151 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 992 tickets were opened
  • 863 tickets were closed
    • 831 tickets were made live.
      • 27 new Themes were made live.
      • 804 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 151 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 32 tickets were not approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 13 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @dimikjones, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @luzuk, @meerab123, @nitspatel, @productiveminds, @shivashankerbhatta, @vowelweb)

ii)  BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 51 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 22 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 8Messages Received 9
Replies Sent 11Emails Created 3
Resolved 9Resolved on First Reply 67%

iv) Extras

  • Create Block Theme pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 13 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Francisco Torres 5:17 pm on August 3, 2026
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Plugins Team: 3 Aug 2026

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 800
  • Plugins rejected : 227
  • Plugins closed : 67
  • Plugins approved : 512

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5071
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 4207
    • (2026-07-27 – 2026-08-02) : 628
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 409
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4662
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 4040
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 425
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 197

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1981
  • New Conversations: 815
  • Customers: 1710
  • Conversations per Day: 247
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 1204
  • Replies Sent: 3065
  • Emails Created: 573

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Image Milana Cap 9:55 am on August 3, 2026
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Documentation Team Update – August 3, 2026

New schema for docs meetings:

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

23 pull requests merged.

62 issues closed.

60 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Image Rade Jekić 7:36 pm on August 2, 2026
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Training Team Update – August 2nd, 2026

Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

  • 🧳 The Training Team is working on a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
  • 🏫 Learn WordPress DACH team kicked off their first German-language course cohort – Starten mit WordPress. You can find more info in the German-language Slack at dewp.slack.com (#training channel).

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in July

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

ProjectNumber of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation47
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix27
👀 Translations ready to review10

📋 Project Update

Task TypeCompleted
🧯 Closed feedback tasks17
📖 Translated content14
🖊️ Translation in progress27
🪚 Workshops completed1

Huge thanks to all contributors – whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, or helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌

+make.wordpress.org/training/

#training

Image Nikunj Hatkar 3:13 pm on July 30, 2026
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Test Team Update: 30 July, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ held every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm UTC in the #core-test.

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).
Note that review implies code validation and addresses developers.

📊 Current totals (since July 16, 2026):

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

  • Need to reproduce issue: 134 (change: -2)
  • Need patch testing: 124 (change: +2)

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

  • Need to reproduce issue: 13 (change: -6)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

  • Need to reproduce issue: 2 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 19 (change: 0)

Gutenberg

  • Need to reproduce issue: 3 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: 0)

To know more about these reports and what you can do, connect with the Test Team over in #core-test or ➡️ check the full meetings schedule.

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Image Bijay Yadav 2:14 pm on July 28, 2026
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Themes team update July 28, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 25 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 103 tickets are assigned.
    • 24 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 30 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 75 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 103 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 5 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 40 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 740 tickets were opened
  • 814 tickets were closed
    • 789 tickets were made live.
      • 50 new Themes were made live.
      • 739 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 40 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 25 tickets were not approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 13 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @dimikjones, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @luzuk, @meerab123, @productiveminds, @wpinterface, @vowelweb, @fluturibiz, @itsmeakay)

ii)  BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 49 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 25 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 10Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 1
Resolved 5Resolved on First Reply 80%

iv) Extras

  • Create Block Theme pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 13 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Francisco Torres 10:53 am on July 27, 2026
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Plugins Team: 27 Jul 2026

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 807
  • Plugins rejected : 31
  • Plugins closed : 55
  • Plugins approved : 590

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4991
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 4247
    • (2026-07-20 – 2026-07-26) : 552
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 174
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4817
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 4118
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 496
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 203

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 2032
  • New Conversations: 1114
  • Customers: 1756
  • Conversations per Day: 254
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 1462
  • Replies Sent: 3870
  • Emails Created: 890

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Image Bijay Yadav 5:36 am on July 22, 2026
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Themes team update July 22, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 54 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 22 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 89 tickets are assigned.
    • 23 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 43 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 74 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 88 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 7 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 4 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1091 tickets were opened
  • 1398 tickets were closed
    • 1359 tickets were made live.
      • 31 new Themes were made live.
      • 1328 Theme updates were made live.
      • 5 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 4 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 39 tickets were not approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 13 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @dimikjones, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @luzuk, @meerab123, @productiveminds, @sahil1819, @wpinterface, @vowelweb, @fluturibiz)

ii)  BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 49 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 15 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 15Messages Received 16
Replies Sent 12Emails Created 2
Resolved 9Resolved on First Reply 33%

iv) Extras

  • Create Block Theme pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 85 active issues and 9 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 13 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates