Mobile Team Update – March 12th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 24.4 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on “Become a beta tester”.

#mobile

Themes team update March 12, 2024

i) 🎟 Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is 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
  • 74 tickets are assigned.
    • 3 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 27 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 50 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 61 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 0 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 784 tickets were opened
  • 772 tickets were closed
    • 764 tickets were made live.
      • 6 new Themes were made live.
      • 758 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 8 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.

Number of reviewers: 4 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@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

  • 21 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 4 Block theme has been live in the last 7 days

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 9Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 1
Resolved 3Resolved on First Reply 100%

iv) 📝Handbook Stats

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 9000+ active installs. There are 75 active issues and 9 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 6 PRs and 38 issues.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Core Team Update – March 11, 2024

Overview

  • DevChat meeting held on March 6.
    • The agenda with post highlights and updates from next releases and 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/.
    • The summary.
  • DevChat meeting held on February 28.

Code Overview

Data is from March 4 – March 11.

Releases

Highlights:

Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

#core, #core-editor

Plugin Review Team: 11 March 2024

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 : 128
  • Plugins rejected : 13
  • Plugins closed : 555
  • Plugins approved : 77

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2219
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1972
    • (2024-03-04 – 2024-03-10) : 190
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 460
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1759
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1557
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 185
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 17

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1430
  • New Conversations: 1009
  • Customers: 1223
  • Conversations per Day: 178
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 861
  • Replies Sent: 1551
  • Emails Created: 905

* : 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: 11 March 2024

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

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

📊 Current totals (since Mar 04, 2024):

  • Need testing info: 15 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2148 (change: +9)
  • Need patch testing: 207 (change: -3)
  • Need unit tests: 115 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 161 (change: -1)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 14 (change: +9)
  • Need patch testing: 3 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 8 (change: -4)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1 (change: -5)
  • Need patch testing: 2 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 20 (change: -5)

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

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Plugin Review Team: 4 March 2024

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 : 106
  • Plugins rejected : 8
  • Plugins closed : 42
  • Plugins approved : 100

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2184
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1939
    • (2024-02-26 – 2024-03-03) : 164
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 495
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1689
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1467
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 207
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 15

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 714
  • New Conversations: 205
  • Customers: 652
  • Conversations per Day: 89
  • Busiest Day: Friday
  • Messages Received: 442
  • Replies Sent: 671
  • Emails Created: 113

* : 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: 4 March 2024

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

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

📊 Current totals (since Feb 26, 2024):

  • Need testing info: 15 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2139 (change: -27)
  • Need patch testing: 210 (change: -4)
  • Need unit tests: 116 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 162 (change: -3)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 7 (change: -6)
  • Need patch testing: 11 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: -3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 19 (change: +11)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 6 (change: +3)
  • Need patch testing: 3 (change: +0)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 30 (change: +18)

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

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Training Team Update – February 2024

The Training Team is using these updates to report on how the team is doing with its different projects. For a detailed list of new content recently published on Learn WordPress, see the latest edition of the newsletter: Learn WordPress Newsletter – March 2024.


Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Relaunching Learn WordPress with a new information architecture and design, with content focused on specific learning pathways, is the biggest goal and project for the Training Team in 2024. Come follow Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress to stay up-to-date with the progress of this work.

Content Creation Progress

Other Projects

  • The team is currently gathering a list of requirements for #2231 Testing translation plugins for learn.wordpress.org, and we invite folks to share their input directly on the 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue.
  • Looking for a group of folks to help outline a contributor journey learning pathways?
  • Training Team Contributor Day Online Session
  • WordPress 6.5 release workshops

Learn GitHub Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-02-01 – 2024-02-31
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

  • Issues created: 64 (+8)
  • Issues closed: 75 (+11)
  • Issues open: 475 (-2)
  • Pull requests created: 7 (+1)
  • Pull requests closed: 5 (-3)
  • Pull requests open: 13 (-2)

Active Members

  • GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. authors: 5 (-2)
  • Issue authors: 24 (+4)
  • PR submitters: 0 (+0)

Of these, 11 Git author, 2 issue authors, and 0 PR submitter made their first contribution in February 2024 🎉

#learnwp, #training

Core Performance Team Update: February 2024

Tickets and contributions

The Performance Team works on performance-related tickets in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and holds a fortnightly Bug Scrub on Wednesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

The Performance Team is focusing on upcoming tickets for WordPress 6.5, including the Performant Translations work #59656, and support for the AVIF image format #51228. The team have created several dev notes for the Performance work included in WordPress 6.5:

Interactivity APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.

The Performance Team has been supporting on the efforts for the interactivity API TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket #60356 has now been merged as part of WordPress 6.5 which will allow new interactive features to be shipped to users using less client-side JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/., resulting in better metrics for LCP, CLS and INP. The merge announcement post provides additional information.

Server Response Improvements

In addition to the performance improvements to the I18n system and for registering 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. Type Variations—both of which target server response times—the team also worked on:

  • Improving Block Pattern registration performance (#59532)
  • Improving the performance of the new 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 Dependencies feature (#60518

Plugin Checker

The Performance Team has continued work on the Plugin Checker, collaborating closely with the Plugin Review team and are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0, which alongside a new technical foundation brings several enhancements, such as WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ support. 

Additional Plugins

The Performance Team are also working on 2 new plugins; Embed Optimizer and Optimization Detective. Please see#core-performance channel in Slack for more details on when these will be released.

Team headlines and updates

The team has been working closely on profiling WordPress 6.5 throughout betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. this month and look forward to sharing the results once the release is out.

Performance Lab Plugin

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month.
February’s release 2.9.0 included several enhancements for working towards creating standalone plugins. It now recommends the new plugins “Auto Sizes for Lazy-loaded Images” and “Speculation Rules” (958), and it comes with an enhanced generator tag that includes the standalone plugin slugs (949). A  Server-Timing headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. bug has been fixed (957). The team are working towards the major 3.0.0 milestone which will introduce separate plugins, where the user will be asked to install/activate the standalone plugins instead of the previously used PL modules.

#core-performance, #performance

Plugin Review Team: 27 February 2024

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 : 133
  • Plugins rejected : 1
  • Plugins closed : 26
  • Plugins approved : 55

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2202
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1908
    • (2024-02-19 – 2024-02-25) : 199
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 488
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1714
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1348
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 353
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 13

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 912
  • New Conversations: 209
  • Customers: 661
  • Conversations per Day: 114
  • Busiest Day: Friday
  • Messages Received: 424
  • Replies Sent: 509
  • Emails Created: 116

* : 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