Themes team update May 27, 2025

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 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
  • 67 tickets are assigned.
    • 5 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 16 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 27 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 50 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 4 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 934 tickets were opened
  • 980 tickets were closed
    • 939 tickets were made live.
      • 45 new Themes were made live.
      • 894 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 33 tickets were not approved.
    • 8 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: 6 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@bijayyadav, @vowelweb, @mhamal)

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

  • 17 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 19 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 7Messages Received 9
Replies Sent 6Emails Created 0
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 100%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 57 active issues and 8 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.

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Plugin Review Team: 26 May 2025

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 : 269
  • Plugins rejected : 138
  • Plugins closed : 79
  • Plugins approved : 132

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1777
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1440
    • (2025-05-19 – 2025-05-25) : 255
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 220
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1557
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1412
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 138
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 7

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 756
  • New Conversations: 425
  • Customers: 681
  • Conversations per Day: 94
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 492
  • Replies Sent: 1265
  • Emails Created: 341

* : 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

Test Team Update: 26 May, 2025

📢 Keywords on Trac have been changed to ‘needs-test-info‘ and ‘has-test-info‘ to avoid showing up under ‘needs-testing‘. Thanks to @sirlouen for pushing this change.

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since May 19, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 34 (change: +3)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2076 (change: +10)
  • Need patch testing: 103 (change: -22)
  • Need unit tests: 98 (change: -3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 246 (change: -1)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 24 (change: -5)
  • Need reproduce issue: 22 (change: +12)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need unit tests: 4 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 23 (change: +3)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 32 (change: +1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 19 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 43 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 103 (change: -1)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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Polyglots Week in Review: May 26, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (May 26, 2025), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.’s stats, highlights, and ways to contribute. ➡️ Jump to: 📊 Weekly Stats |📌 Highlights |✋ Requests & Help Needed |📅 Meetings


📊 Weekly Stats (as of May 26, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to May 18, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208

  • Releases:

    • Up to date: 66 (±0)

    • Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)

    • Behind by one major version: 4 (±0)

    • Behind by more than one major version: 59 (±0)

    • Have site but never released: 5

    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210

  • 100% Translated: 35 (+3)

  • 95–99% Translated: 27 (−3)

  • 90–94% Translated: 8 (±0)

  • 50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)

  • 0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)

  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)

  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 10 / 7,205 total (±0)

  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 199 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 796 (+7)

  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,232 (+3)

  • Translation Contributors: 76,234 (+96)

🧾 Note: A single WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account may hold multiple roles across different locales.

🗣 Site Language Adoption

    • 56.918% (+0.004%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.


📌 Highlights

Here are some posts and updates you might have missed:


✋ Requests & Help Needed

There’s an open request for a new locale 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/.. Please join the discussion and share your feedback: Want to help more? Consider reviewing open translation requests or helping guide new contributors in your locale. Don’t forget to check the Translation Editors Handbook!

📅 Upcoming Meetings

  • May 28, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • June 4, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • June 11, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • June 18, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
🗓 Find full details here: 👉 make.wordpress.org/meetings Regular #polyglots meetings:
  • Global Polyglots Chat (Asia-Pacific): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 7:00 GMT
  • Global Polyglots Chat (Europe/Africa/Americas): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 13:00 GMT
👥 Want to help lead a meeting? Let us know in #polyglots!
Thank you to everyone contributing to translations and making WordPress accessible in your language. 🌍💛

Plugin Review Team: 19 May 2025

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 : 276
  • Plugins rejected : 107
  • Plugins closed : 20
  • Plugins approved : 158

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1773
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1410
    • (2025-05-12 – 2025-05-18) : 241
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 255
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1518
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1390
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 120
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 8

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 746
  • New Conversations: 385
  • Customers: 677
  • Conversations per Day: 93
  • Busiest Day: Sunday
  • Messages Received: 442
  • Replies Sent: 1271
  • Emails Created: 302

* : 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

Test Team Update: 19 May, 2025

📢 Keywords on Trac have been changed to ‘needs-test-info‘ and ‘has-test-info‘ to avoid showing up under ‘needs-testing‘. Thanks to @sirlouen for pushing this change.

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since May 5, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 31 (change: +6)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2066 (change: +6)
  • Need patch testing: 125 (change: -36)
  • Need unit tests: 101 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 247 (change: -10)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 29 (change: +27)
  • Need reproduce issue: 10 (change: +6)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 5 (change: +4)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 20 (change: +17)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 31 (change: +31)
  • Need reproduce issue: 17 (change: +17)
  • Need patch testing: 44 (change: +42)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: +3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 104 (change: +101)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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Themes team update May 20, 2025

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 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
  • 100 tickets are assigned.
    • 8 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 24 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 45 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 77 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 29 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 866 tickets were opened
  • 813 tickets were closed
    • 764 tickets were made live.
      • 11 new Themes were made live.
      • 753 Theme updates were made live.
      • 29 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 43 tickets were not approved.
    • 6 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: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@bijayyadav, @shivashankerbhatta)

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

  • 21 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 9 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 10Messages Received 9
Replies Sent 6Emails Created 1
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 83%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 67 active issues and 6 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Themes team update May 13, 2025

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 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
  • 64 tickets are assigned.
    • 3 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 12 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 28 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 48 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 6 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 915 tickets were opened
  • 920 tickets were closed
    • 903 tickets were made live.
      • 34 new Themes were made live.
      • 869 Theme updates were made live.
      • 6 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 tickets were not approved.
    • 1 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: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@bijayyadav@mhamal)

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

  • 12 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 17 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 5Messages Received 9
Replies Sent 5Emails Created 0
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 10000+ active installs. There are 67 active issues and 6 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Test Team Update: 5 May, 2025

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since April 28, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 25 (change: +3)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2060 (change: -6)
  • Need patch testing: 161 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 103 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 257 (change: +1)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 2 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 4 (change: -10)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 3 (change: -5)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 0 (change: -1)
  • Need patch testing: 2 (change: +2)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 3 (change: +1)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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Themes team update May 06, 2025

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 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
  • 72 tickets are assigned.
    • 4 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 15 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 36 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 54 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 780 tickets were opened
  • 758 tickets were closed
    • 761 tickets were made live.
      • 29 new Themes were made live.
      • 732 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 23 tickets were not approved.
    • 1 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: 6 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@bijayyadav, @mhamal, @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

  • 17 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 11 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 6Messages Received 7
Replies Sent 7Emails Created 2
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 10000+ active installs. There are 67 active issues and 6 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues

#themes, #weekly-updates