We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.
We do license, security, and code quality reviews.
We help build and maintain default themes.
The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to 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.-based themes.
Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2026
A few weeks ago, we invited community members who were interested in serving as team representatives to submit nominations. Individuals were welcome to nominate themselves or recommend someone they felt would be a great fit for the role.
The post received many nomination comments, with several highlighting individuals who will serve as the 2025 team representatives. After discussions with both past and current team reps, we finalized the team representatives for 2026. If anyone is interested in taking ownership of a specific area, please reach out in the channel to start a conversation.
Additional support is always appreciated—the more help the representatives receive, the more they are able to accomplish.
Please join me in congratulating them and wishing them every success in their upcoming term.
Bijay Yadav is a WordPress theme developer from Kathmandu, Nepal, sponsored by Elementor to contribute full-time to the WordPress Themes team.
He has been an active member of the WordPress community since 2013, participating in WordCamps as a speaker and contributor dayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. lead, and contributing across coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., themes, plugins, translations, and photos.
His contributions include closing numerous themes tickets and maintaining 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/ themes such as CustomizerCustomizerTool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. Custom CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., Clean Notebook, and Geum.
You can reach him directly via WordPress Slack; the username is bijayyadav.
Fahim Murshed
Fahim Murshed is a dedicated WordPress Product Support Engineer and active community contributor from Barishal, Bangladesh.
He is the Lead Organizer of the Barishal WordPress MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. and has been deeply involved in the WordPress ecosystem, contributing to support, themes, core, and more, as well as participating in and organizing WordCamps and meetups.
His commitment to helping others and supporting open-source WordPress initiatives is a key part of his work and community engagement.
You can reach him directly via WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. His Slack username is FahimMurshed.
Justin Tadlock
Justin Tadlock is a long-time WordPress contributor and developer from Alabama who has been involved with the project since 2005.
Automattic sponsors him to contribute full-time to Documentation, Support, and Themes, and has a broad history of contributions across core, themes, plugins, and more.
Justin will focus more on the theme handbook and also be involved in making decisions and keeping things moving along.
You can find him on WordPress Slack via his username, greenshady.
Thank you for taking on the responsibilities and keeping the tasks and team moving well.
