Themes team meeting agenda for February 11, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 11 February.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

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Themes team meeting notes for January 28, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: January 28, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @bijayyadav
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 779 tickets were opened
  • 799 tickets were closed
    • 777 tickets were made live.
      • 41 new Themes were made live.
      • 736 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 22 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: 6 (@acosmin@kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif)

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. themes status:

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

Currently, we have 53 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

2. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2025 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor 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/.

WordCamp Asia Contributor Day is happening on 20 Feb 2025 at PICC, Manila Philippines. @kafleg and @bijayyadav will be there leading the table. If you want to learn theme guidelines, start reviewing themes, contribute in community themes development and other areas of the themes team, join there.

You can see detailed information about Contributor Day here. We would like to see you there.

3. Community themes development

We have an initiative for community theme development, and you can also be a part of it. You can either contribute design of themes and help develop or test them. You can also review the theme’s code and make it ready for submission on WordPress.org. This is also considered as contributing to the themes team.

Recently a theme named Darken is under development and the design was submitted by @amitbajracharya and currently developing by @bijayyadav. Thank you for your contribution.

There are some PRs to review, you can also help by reviewing them. If you attend the themes table in WordCamp Asia contributor day, we’ll also discuss this more. So don’t miss the opportunity.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @dballari asked a question about the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-ready tag in his theme. @shivashankerbhatta is interested in helping him with that.

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Themes team meeting agenda for January 28, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 28, January.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2025 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor 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/.
  3. Community themes development
  4. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

A Year in Themes Team – 2024

Happy New Year 2025 to all!

Here’s a summary of the WordPress Themes Team’s contributions in 2024, including Trac ticket activities and 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 statistics.

We sincerely appreciate everyone who participated in reviewing and creating themes, attended team meetings, identified bugs in the Theme Developer Handbook, and contributed in other ways to support the Themes Team.

Please note that these statistics are based on WordPress TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. custom query filters and some manual counts. If you notice any inaccuracies in the data, feel free to let us know, and we’ll verify them promptly.

Major Highlights

General Overview

In the year 2024,

  • 39671 tickets were opened (Both new and updated)
  • 39796 tickets were closed
    • 39046 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
      • 1926 new Themes were submitted for review.
      • 1566 new Themes were made live. (All Block, Hybrid, or Classic Themes)
      • 360 new Themes submitted for review are closed as not approved.
      • 37210 Theme updates were made live.
    • 725 tickets were not approved.
    • 25 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

The percentage of new themes live is 81.3% whereas 18.7% were not-approved.

Monthwise data for 2024 (New Themes Submission, Live and Not Approved)

Months/StatisticsTotalLiveNot Approved
January15011733
February13310627
March14910940
April16714423
May17614630
June15213418
July18215032
August20116734
September20316340
October16213032
November1309931
December645311

Bar graph showing the comparison data for 2024 (January – December)

Block Themes Statistics

  • The number of Block Themes submissions: 646
    • Block themes were made live: 549
    • Block themes were not-approved: 96
    • Currently under review: 18

Monthwise data for block themes 2024 (New Themes Submission, Live and Not Approved)

Months/StatisticsTotalLiveNot Approved
January150305
February1332912
March1493412
April167526
May1765311
June152494
July182499
August201658
September2036712
October162447
November130377
December64230

Bar graph showing the comparison data for block themes 2024 (January – December)

Top 10 Theme Authors

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

AuthorsTotal Number of Themes LiveNumber of Classic Themes LiveNumber of Block Themes Live
@automattic98098
@cretathemes32032
@ascendoor31310
@vowelweb31292
@pewilliams30030
@themagnifico5230300
@bosathemes29290
@classictemplate26260
@omegathemes26260
@themegrove26026

Theme Reviewers

In the year 2024, we have 9 reviewers. Here is the list of the top 5 reviewers with the number of reviews (including not-approved).

Theme ReviewerNumber of reviews (including not-approved)
@kafleg1192
@acosmin513
@fahimmurshed93
@vowelweb89
@bijayyadav25
@rabieelkheir3
@rinkuyadav9993
@shivashankerbhatta3

HelpScout Stats

In the year 2024,

Email Conversations 670Messages Received 920
Replies Sent 606Emails Created 38
Resolved 425Resolved on First Reply 84%

Blog Posts Statistics

Block Theme Handbook

Worked on the following chapters,

Huge props to @greenshady for his hard work to complete this handbook.

Thank you @acosmin for helping to collect statistics and data on 27th Dec.

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Themes team meeting notes for October 22, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: October 22, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @bijayyadav
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting.

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 751 tickets were opened
  • 755 tickets were closed
    • 741 tickets were made live.
      • 20 new Themes were made live.
      • 721 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb,@bijayyadav)

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. themes status:

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

Currently, we have 86 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

2. SEO Keyword stuffing in the theme name

While reviewing themes or checking the themes repo, we found some themes’ names is not like a name but more SEO keyword stuffing.

Theme name like `SEO Specialist Agency` is more like keywords, not name. During the meeting, @williampatton said, “That does seem kinda keyword loaded to me but I don’t know if it violates any rules”. @heatheracton added, “Given these themes are meant for wide use, it could be suggested they change to “Specialist Agency”. “SEO Specialist Agency” seems pretty niche? Maybe could add something to the theme developer handbook, recommending generic names?”

Aslam Naik said, “If an author persistently submits themes which are obvious keyword stuffing, we can suggest them. If they are using long-tail keywords we can suggest or request changes, I think once they know reviewers are aware of this issue, they will automatically deter”.

@kafleg summarized that to reduce such name by,

  • Check the name of the theme and if the name seems Keyword stuffing, inform the theme author to change it.
  • Suggest some good name ideas.
  • If they repeatedly do, again ask them to change.

During the meeting, we agreed to follow this and then see how it will work in coming days.

3. Twenty Twenty-Five theme testing

Testing the TT5(Twenty Twenty-Five) theme is also a good way to contribute to the WordPress project. You can test PRs or the entire theme with current and previous versions of WordPress, as well as in different PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. versions.

During the meeting, @heatheracton shared, “Just wanted to share that I’m submitting my first ever Issue after testing the TT5 theme.”  

We love to see your active contribution to testing the TT5 theme. Also, the RC1 of 6.7 is released.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared that, KafleG, @shivashankerbhatta and @ohia talked with the Contributor Mentorship Program themes team mentee and it was a nice talk.

Matias is looking for reviewers who can review PRs for the 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.

See you everyone at the next meeting! Mark your calendar for second Tuesday of November.


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