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Bijay Yadav 5:14 am on September 24, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for September 23, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 865 tickets were opened
  • 866 tickets were closed
    • 852 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 816 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was 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. And data from themes trac.

In the last 7 days, 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 stats:

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

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady asked if anyone has topics they’d like to see covered on the Dev Blog and encouraged sharing theming ideas either on GitHub Discussions or directly with him.

Also, @aslamnaik asked if there are different requirements for reviewing block themes over the regular classic themes, and @greenshady shared a link to the theme handbook in response.

Since there were few attendees and no more agendas to discuss on the open floor, @bijayyadav adjourned the meeting.

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Bijay Yadav 3:56 am on September 11, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for September 9, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 1348 tickets were opened
  • 1369 tickets were closed
    • 1353 tickets were made live.
      • 50 new Themes were made live.
      • 1303 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 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. And data from themes trac.

In the last 7 days, 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 stats:

  • 12 Block themes are currently being reviewed.
  • 19 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days.

3. Open Floor

Since there were few attendees and no items to discuss on the open floor, @bijayyadav adjourned the meeting.

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KafleG 9:34 pm on August 27, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for August 26, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 1066 tickets were opened
  • 1054 tickets were closed
    • 1041 tickets were made live.
      • 26 new Themes were made live.
      • 1015 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 13 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. And data from themes trac.

In the last 7 days, 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 stats:

  • 19 Block themes are currently being reviewed.
  • 11 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady shared that, he is hoping to return to the Theme Handbook overhaul project soon. Which is one of the good news.

During the meeting, he said, “There’s a lot of old classic theme docs that need to be overhauled or moved. Would the team be OK with just moving the old docs to the Classic Themes chapter at first? Then, can we more slowly iterate and update over time? Doing a big overhaul of all the old docs at once doesn’t seem to be the best route.”

He added, Just for context on the above doc question, there are a lot of questions from themers/users on why there are multiple top-level pages with similar information. So I think this would help lower confusion as we work through the docs. But if we have thumbs up, I’ll go ahead and start planning this for the coming weeks. @kafleg is also interested in helping if needed.

@bijayyadav agreed and said, “Yes, good to have moved the old docs to the Classic Themes chapter at first and slowly update over time”.

Another attendee, @rollybueno, asked the question about inactivity duration in the tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..

As there were small groups of attendees and no more agendas to discuss in the meeting, @bijayyadav closed the meeting.

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KafleG 8:44 am on August 13, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for August 12, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 1145 tickets were opened
  • 1142 tickets were closed
    • 1118 tickets were made live.
      • 33 new Themes were made live.
      • 1085 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 24 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. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @bijayyadav, @mhamal, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb)

In the last 7 days, 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 stats:

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

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. US 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 US will be held on August 26–29, with Contributor Day on the 26th. We encourage all attendees to join the Themes table. Also, if you’re interested in leading the Themes table, please let us know. You can contact @kafleg or the themes team reps.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared that “Some of the live themes in the repository have promotional text in the theme screenshot, which is against the guidelines. So, I request  theme authors to fix this.” He added, “Our guidelines clearly state that: The screenshot must not look like an advertisement. The reviewer can subjectively ask you to change screenshots if they find that it is not appropriate.”

Host @bijayyadav thanked everyone who joined the team meeting and ended up.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 10:02 am on May 14, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for May 13, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: May 13, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 915 tickets were opened
  • 920 tickets were closed
  • 903 tickets were made live.
  • 34 new Themes were made live.
  • 869 Theme updates were made live.
  • 6 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 16 tickets were not approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the themes this week. 

In the last 7 days, 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 stats:

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

2. Trademark in the Theme Name

During the meeting, we talked about using registered trademarks on theme names. But, we were not able to decide in this particular agenda. @williampatton said, “This one probably needs to go out in a post and seek some wider opinions.” William will write a post in the Make Themes blog to collect wider opinions. It will also give chance to participate in this discussion and later in the upcoming meeting, we will finalize it.

Almost all of the attendees were agreed not to have Trademark in the theme name.

3. Not relevant Theme URI

We have guidelines for theme URI and author URI, but these days theme authors make a loophole in those guidelines. @acosmin said, “As long as it doesn’t contain information about the free theme that is hosted on wp.org it isn’t allowed”. @kafleg said, “Reviewers need to check theme URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org properly and if there is something wrong smell, you either consult with others before approving it. We might give a look and decide”. We all agreed on this during the meeting.

4. Open Floor

We didn’t have anything during the open floor.

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