Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (July 8, 2005), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots TeamPolyglots 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.
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📊 Weekly Stats (as of July 7, 2025)
Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to June 30, 2025 in brackets):
🌐 Locale & Release Stats
Total Locales: 208
Releases:
Up to date: 68 (±0)
Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)
Behind by one major version: 3 (±0)
Behind by more than one major version: 58 (-1)
Have site but never released: 5
Have no site: 73
🌍 Translation Coverage
Total Locales with Projects: 210
100% Translated: 41 (+2)
95–99% Translated: 22 (−2)
90–94% Translated: 7 (±0)
50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)
0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
No Project: 7 (±0)
🙋 Requests
Unresolved Editor Requests: 13 / 7,300 total (±0)
Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 199 total (±0)
🧑🤝🧑 Translators
General Translation Editors (GTEs): 797 (+2)
Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,266 (+5)
Translation Contributors: 77,077 (+88)
🗣 Site Language Adoption
56.87% (-0.015%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.
✋ Requests & Help Needed
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!
ii) BlockBlockBlock 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
13 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 9
Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 9
Emails Created 2
Resolved 7
Resolved on First Reply 71%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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 56 active issues and 5 Pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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 : 278
Plugins rejected : 40
Plugins closed : 28
Plugins approved : 122
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2093
(older than 7 days ago)** : 1745
(2025-06-30 – 2025-07-06) : 266
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 465
(pending; replied to)* : 1628
(pending; waiting on author)* : 1482
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 107
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 39
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 582
New Conversations: 349
Customers: 525
Conversations per Day: 72
Busiest Day: Wednesday
Messages Received: 382
Replies Sent: 1056
Emails Created: 282
* : 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
Here’s some aggregate data for June 2025 about WordPress CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..
Please note:
These data only include code contributions to WordPress codebase, not contributions on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ repositories such as GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ (but it still include Gutenberg package merges and related backports).
The committers data only includes commits to trunk. Branch backports are not taken into account for now.
In June, the WordPress Core team shipped 128 commits (+67 compared to last month). 133 tickets were opened (-2), 291 tickets were closed (+121), and 20 were reopened (+14).
This month, 113 people contributed to WordPress source code using Trac (+52 compared to last month!), and 22 people (+13) made their very first contribution to WordPress Core ♥️
Components activity
How did June’s commits break out by Core Component?
The most prolific components were:
Component
Count
%
Coding Standards
15
20%
Docs
10
14%
Build/Test Tools
9
12%
Bundled Themes
6
8%
Users
4
5%
Site Health
3
4%
Media
3
4%
Editor
3
4%
General
3
4%
Networks and Sites
2
3%
Posts, Post Types
2
3%
Database
2
3%
June 2025 Core commits distribution across WordPress Core components
Contributors data retrieved from WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ profiles
The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org.
One caveat: this ignores usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, plus any that had blank or unusable country/company information (“The Universe”, “Unicorn land” or “Planes, Trains, and Busses” are not known countries 🙂).
Countries stats
In June, people from at least 22 countries contributed to WordPress Core.
The next graphs show the number of props received by country and the number of contributors from each country. The top 10 countries, based on the number of props received, are these (evolution since last month is provided between parenthesis):
Country
Contributions
Contributors
India
48
28
United States of America
47
21
Italy
17
3
Spain
17
3
France
16
7
Russia
9
3
Australia
5
1
United Kingdom
3
2
Poland
3
2
Canada
3
3
June 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by country. Click to open in a new tab.
Five for the Future related stats
In June, people from at least 38 different companies/organizations contributed to WordPress Core.
The next graphs show the number of props received by organization and the number of contributors from each organization. The top 10 organizations, based on the number of props received, are these (evolution since last month is provided between parenthesis):
Company
Contributions
Contributors
rtCamp
46
13
Human Made
15
2
Whodunit
15
6
4P.Marketing
14
1
Automattic
12
7
10up
10
3
Yoast
8
2
Accessible WD
6
1
Bluehost
5
1
KrishaWeb
4
1
Multidots
4
2
June 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by organization. Click to open in a new tab.
What did June hold for Core Committers?
14 Core Committers committed code to the trunk branch in WordPress SVNSVNApache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. repository this month (+6 compared to last month).
Of the 74 commits to the trunk branch (+28 compared to the previous month), 27 (36%) were made by people working at Yoast, 11 (15%) from employees of Human Made, 6 (8%) from people working at Whodunit, or Bluehost.
Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (July 1, 2005), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots TeamPolyglots 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 July 1, 2025)
Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to June 24, 2025 in brackets):
🌐 Locale & Release Stats
Total Locales: 208
Releases:
Up to date: 68 (+1)
Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)
Behind by one major version: 3 (-1)
Behind by more than one major version: 58 (±0)
Have site but never released: 5
Have no site: 73
🌍 Translation Coverage
Total Locales with Projects: 210
100% Translated: 40 (+1)
95–99% Translated: 23 (−1)
90–94% Translated: 7 (±0)
50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)
0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
No Project: 7 (±0)
🙋 Requests
Unresolved Editor Requests: 13 / 7,288 total (+2)
Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 199 total (±0)
🧑🤝🧑 Translators
General Translation Editors (GTEs): 795 (+1)
Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,262 (+10)
Translation Contributors: 76,327 (+137)
🗣 Site Language Adoption
56.866% (-0.0310%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.
📌 Highlights
Here are some posts and updates you might have missed:
✋ Requests & Help Needed
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!
ii) BlockBlockBlock 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
20 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 10
Messages Received 21
Replies Sent 18
Emails Created 6
Resolved 10
Resolved on First Reply 10%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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 56 active issues and 5 Pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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 : 273
Plugins rejected : 80
Plugins closed : 36
Plugins approved : 152
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1942
(older than 7 days ago)** : 1600
(2025-06-23 – 2025-06-29) : 287
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 418
(pending; replied to)* : 1524
(pending; waiting on author)* : 1383
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 103
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 38
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 577
New Conversations: 225
Customers: 528
Conversations per Day: 72
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 427
Replies Sent: 1051
Emails Created: 145
* : 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
Hello, Training Team! Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished this month and look ahead together!
📌 Highlights
Here are some important updates from Training Team!
📣 Second Training Team RepTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. Deputy: We’re excited to announce that Rade Jekić has officially joined the Training Team as our second Deputy Team Rep!
🧭 The Guide Program is now fully active, with all mentees successfully paired with their guides. Some mentees have also started making active contributions to the Training Team.
🖼️ Thumbnail replacement and update project: We’ve made significant progress on the thumbnail generator project, with most thumbnails successfully updated. However, a few content thumbnails still use outdated designs or don’t comply with our thumbnail generator guidelines. We are working on these thumbnails and it’s an on going process.
⚒️ Training Team Activities in June Overview
We hosted 4 team meetings, 4 coffee hours, and 2 workshops from the Training Team. Weekly meetings were facilitated by team reps, coffee hours by Training Team contributors, and workshops were organized by both contributors and Training Team members. You can read the recap notes on the Training Team blog.
📋 Project Status
Project
Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review
9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation
7
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting
3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix
27
👀 Translations ready to review
5
📋 Project Update
Task Type
Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks
7
📖 Translated content
9
🖊️ Translation in progress
27
💻 Online Workshops
2
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, helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌
