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KafleG 3:31 am on December 30, 2024
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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.

#themes-team

Maggie Cabrera 10:49 am on May 20, 2024
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Proposal: changes to the themes team

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/ states:

“The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to 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.-based themes.”

Let’s bring that in with the description of what the team does and their priorities.

The current issues:

  • The name of the team’s 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/. channel doesn’t fit anymore: the team is no longer called the Themes Review team, but the slack channel is still called #themereview. This creates confusion for contributors, especially in the context of contributor days and general onboarding.
  • Team competencies have expanded: so far, the main task of the team members has been reviews. With the advent of block themes, the queues have become much shorter, and not many reviewers are needed anymore. Some team members have moved on to participate in theme-related tasks such as creating new default themes, helping maintain past default themes, and also contributing to community themes. Some have created patterns or even moved to focus on easing the gap between classic and block themes with work in the editor itself. All of this combines to focus on helping those creating themes move and grow in using block themes.
  • The need for visibility of an expanded team: If the team’s competencies expand, onboarding new theme members allows for a greater diversity of profiles. We want to collaborate closer with the design team, coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor team and empower designers to collaborate and contribute.

What now?

The next steps we recommend are:

  • Rename Slack channel to #themes.
  • Meetings:
    • Continue to have a team meeting focused on theme reviews. This remains an opportunity for theme authors to ask questions about submitting their themes.
    • Begin to have a weekly bug scrub for default themes on Monday afternoons at 14:00 BST.
  • Team reporting:
    • The team will continue to report stats on the number of submitted and closed themes, reviews, and emails…
    • Default theme stats will be reported each month at the end of the month.
  • Team reps:
    • Team reps don’t need to cover all the new areas of focus of the team, but hopefully, this change will encourage people from outside the scope of reviews to volunteer as representatives in the future
  • Encourage contribution days to have theme tables to embrace this new focus.
  • Update the team handbook to reflect the changes.

Let’s discuss this proposal and see what the rest of the missing pieces here are.

This post was a collaborative effort of @acosmin @poena @kafleg @luminuu @desrosj @shivashankerbhatta @karmatosed @onemaggie

Props @chanthaboune for pre-publish review.

KafleG 2:24 am on December 11, 2023
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Themes team meeting agenda for December 12, 2023

Hello world! Welcome to the last meeting of 2023.

The themes team meets regularly on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. This session marks the first meeting of December, also serving as the final one for the year 2023. Given that the next meeting falls around Christmas and New Year, we have decided not to schedule the gathering during the holiday period.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on 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. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the scheduled agendas, we reserve time at the conclusion for an open floor session, providing an opportunity for you to pose questions or share any themes-related information.

We strongly encourage the active participation of all members and anyone with an interest in the discussion. If you have particular agenda items you would like to propose, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Nomination for team reps 2024 edition (Final Call)
  • Requirements for the settings/onboarding functionality
  • The year 2023 review
  • Open Floor

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themereview, #themes-team

KafleG 3:56 am on March 1, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – February 28, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on February 28, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

  • This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. 
  • The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @kafleg
  • Full transcript – #themereview channel

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 450 tickets were opened
  • 468 tickets were closed
  • 457 tickets were made live.
  • 31 new Themes were made live.
  • 426 Theme updates were made live.
  • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 10 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.

You can also find the weekly updates here.

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

Number of theme reviewers: 3  (@kafleg, @acosmin, @bijayyadav)

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 2023 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/.

As you all know that WordCamp Asia 2023 contributor day went successfully. @bijayyadav and @sanjiv-saha were the table lead for the themes team.

During the meeting, @bijayyadav shared his experience with the themes table. He wrote, “We had a fantastic day. around 10-12, attendees attended the themes table. Some of them were new to the WordPress themes review process so we guided them on how to review WordPress themes and also showed them the theme review guidelines. I reviewed a theme to demonstrate how we review WordPress themes. Few of the attendees were theme authors themselves with some of the popular themes on WordPress theme repo. We discussed on differences between classic themes 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. themes and also what the best theme development approach would be.”.

Also, he added, “Overall it was fun and we also learned a lot from other fellow theme developers. There was not any difficulty as it was like a discussion session. All of us shared our views and our approaches to the work”.

@greenshady asked for the recorded things of the Contributor Day. As there was no complete recording but Contributor Day had a live webinar of 30 minutes and talked with table leads and the contributors. You can check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4miBF5oEvU This might help you to understand how beautiful the Contributor Day was. 🙂

3. Open Floor

There was a nice discussion happened. If you want to read it completely, go here.

@greenshady jumped in with a pre-announcement around a community themes proposal. He said,

“I wanted to share an initiative that was born and discussed with multiple themers that will help promote the creation of quality block themes and spread knowledge around building such themes.

The idea is to create a community themes repo that works the same way we collaborate when we build the default theme but all year round. We would build block themes together and help each other learn in the process. It won’t be subject to a deadline and we could have more than one theme being developed at once, allowing for more flexibility.

These themes would be released into the repository under the WordPress username the same way default themes and TT1 blocks are, giving appropriate credit to contributors.

There will soon be a post on the make blog with more info and to organize a hallway hangout to answer questions and discuss the idea further.”

@onemaggie added, “It would be great if any of you would like to participate in this idea in any capacity: with designs, code, ideas or reviews, all of it can help. Even just spreading the word to people who could be interested in learning and want to learn by doing”.

@poena asked, Are we using the theme experiments repository and the “core themes projects” 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/. channel? Maggie said, she started a new repo for it and she is fine to use the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes project slack channel for the discussions.

If you are interested and want to contribute to community themes, join the #themereview channel or #core-themes-projects slack channel and get started. We are looking for your help in any area that you can.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @bijayyadav, @amin7, @onemaggie, @elmastudio, @mhamal and @poena for joining the meeting.

#meeting, #meeting-notes, #themes-team

Benachi 5:11 pm on August 9, 2022
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – August 9, 2022

Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on August 9, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel. 

1. Weekly updates

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

  • 430 tickets were opened
  • 429 tickets were closed:
    • 419 tickets were made live.
      • 22 new Themes were made live.
      • 397 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
    • 12 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 3

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 

  • 4 block themes went live in the past 7 days.
  • Total 112 block themes in the repository. 

Theme developer handbook update: 

Props to @greenshady and @colorful-tones for the recent updates. 

If you run across anything that is a blocker for adopting block themes or any FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks. component, please reach out on 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/. or DM @greenshady. 

2. Reserved themes name

We discussed how to check to see if a theme name is already taken or still available. Here are some key points we discussed. You can also check the thread here. 

  • A theme name must be unique from any other themes regardless of where they are hosted, including outside the WordPress directory. 
  • Use Google or other search engines to see whether a theme name is already take or not.
  • You can also search the themes svn for all registered themes.

3. Open Floor

If you have any feedback, please use the comment box below.

Thank you for participating @colorful-tones @mikachan @fahimmurshed @greenshady @uxl @benlumia007 @shshanker and @joyously

#themereview, #themes-team