A Year in Themes Team – 2023

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s some data for 2023 about the WordPress themes team contribution on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets as well as 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.

We would like to thank everyone who got involved in reviewing themes and creating themes. We also like to thank those who attended the themes team meeting, helped to find the bug in the themes developer handbook, and did other related things for the themes team.

Please note that the stats are based on WordPress trac custom query filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. and some manual counts. If you find any stats are invalid, let us know, and we’ll check them again.

General Overview

In the year 2023,

• 28959 tickets were opened (Both new and updated)
• 29032 tickets were closed
  • 28499 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
    • 1413 new Themes were made live. (All Block, Hybrid, or Classic Themes)
    • 27086 Theme updates were made live.
  • 525 tickets were not approved.
  • 8 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Months/Statistics	Total	Live	Not Approved
January	136	109	27
February	98	70	28
March	141	112	29
April	112	90	22
May	123	100	23
June	153	123	30
July	133	106	27
August	155	124	31
September	133	111	22
October	119	90	29
November	129	97	32
December	80	68	12

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Block Themes Statistics

• The number of Block Themes submissions: 364
  • Block themes were made live: 300
  • Block themes were not-approved: 53
  • Currently under review: 11

Months	Block Themes Live Number
January	20
February	15
March	21
April	26
May	21
June	23
July	22
August	35
September	35
October	29
November	30
December	23

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Block Theme Authors

Here is the list of top 10 authors by number of block themes uploaded.

Authors	Number of Block Themes Uploaded
codeyatri	18
wpradiant	17
cretathemes	16
wowsthemes	15
automattic	14
gracethemes	14
eaglethemes	12
cozythemes	11
catchthemes	10
fly2sky	9

Theme Reviewers

In the year 2023, we have 15 reviewers. Here is the list of the top 10 reviewers with the number of reviews (including not-approved).

Theme Reviewer	Number of reviews (including not-approved)
kafleg	800
acosmin	538
fahimmurshed	69
vowelweb	43
ShresthaRaaz	38
bijayyadav	11
aslamnaik	3
rajinsharwar	2

The rest of them have only 1 review per reviewer.

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HelpScout Stats

In the year 2024,

Email Conversations 487	Messages Received 650
Replies Sent 517	Emails Created 18
Resolved 414	Resolved on First Reply 85%

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Block-focused Theme Handbook chapters

In this year 2023, we also worked on writing the theme handbook for the block theme.

• Getting Started
• CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Concepts
• Global Settings and Styles (theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.)
• Templates
• Features

Extras

• Theme Check 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 updated: 3
• Posts published in a weekly updates site: 42
• Total meetings hosted and notes written: 15
• Total agenda notes written: 19
• Total blog posts published on the Make Themes site: 52

Thank you @acosmin for helping to collect statistics and data on 26th Dec.

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