GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
ii) 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. Theme Stats
39 Block themes are currently being reviewed
31 block themes have been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 14
Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 8
Emails Created 0
Resolved 7
Resolved on First Reply 71%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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. Status Change Stats
Plugins requested : 737
Plugins rejected : 29
Plugins closed : 92
Plugins approved : 310
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5429
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4478
(2026-08-03 – 2026-08-09) : 698
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 504
(pending; replied to)* : 4925
(pending; waiting on author)* : 4163
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 556
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 206
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1764
New Conversations: 936
Customers: 1493
Conversations per Day: 220
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1247
Replies Sent: 2684
Emails Created: 678
* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval ** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today
ii) 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. Theme Stats
51 Block themes are currently being reviewed
22 block themes have been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 8
Messages Received 9
Replies Sent 11
Emails Created 3
Resolved 9
Resolved on First Reply 67%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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. Status Change Stats
Plugins requested : 800
Plugins rejected : 227
Plugins closed : 67
Plugins approved : 512
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5071
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4207
(2026-07-27 – 2026-08-02) : 628
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 409
(pending; replied to)* : 4662
(pending; waiting on author)* : 4040
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 425
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 197
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1981
New Conversations: 815
Customers: 1710
Conversations per Day: 247
Busiest Day: Thursday
Messages Received: 1204
Replies Sent: 3065
Emails Created: 573
* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval ** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today
Hello from the Training Team! Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!
📌 Highlights
Here are some important updates from the Training Team!
🧳 The Training Team is working on a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
🏫 Learn WordPress DACH team kicked off their first German-language course cohort – Starten mit WordPress. You can find more info in the German-language Slack at dewp.slack.com (#training channel).
⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in July
We held 4 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.
📋 Project Status
Project
Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review
9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation
47
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting
4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix
27
👀 Translations ready to review
10
📋 Project Update
Task Type
Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks
17
📖 Translated content
14
🖊️ Translation in progress
27
🪚 Workshops completed
1
Huge thanks to all contributors – whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, or helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌
GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
ii) 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. Theme Stats
49 Block themes are currently being reviewed
25 block themes have been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 10
Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 8
Emails Created 1
Resolved 5
Resolved on First Reply 80%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 86 active issues and 10 pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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. Status Change Stats
Plugins requested : 807
Plugins rejected : 31
Plugins closed : 55
Plugins approved : 590
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4991
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4247
(2026-07-20 – 2026-07-26) : 552
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 174
(pending; replied to)* : 4817
(pending; waiting on author)* : 4118
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 496
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 203
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 2032
New Conversations: 1114
Customers: 1756
Conversations per Day: 254
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1462
Replies Sent: 3870
Emails Created: 890
* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval ** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today
