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 : 559
Plugins rejected : 228
Plugins closed : 96
Plugins approved : 256
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5027
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4301
(2026-04-06 – 2026-04-12) : 532
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 1029
(pending; replied to)* : 3998
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3672
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 277
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 49
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1205
New Conversations: 594
Customers: 1101
Conversations per Day: 150
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 800
Replies Sent: 2286
Emails Created: 454
* : 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
Hey 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!
🧳 WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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 2026 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/ will have 4 Training Team table leads
🏫 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 Development Course Cohort Learning Pathway Development
We’re planning a cohort-based learning program focused on Block Theme Development. Before turning it into a full course, we want to build the learning pathway together with the community:
Weekly Campus Connect Office Hours are now happening in the #campusconnectSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel for organizers to ask questions and share experiences. 📚 Collaboration with the WP Credits team
Updating and improving the contributor pathway and handbook:
Huge thanks to all contributors—whether you took notes, facilitated meetings, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted workshops, or helped manage tasks on 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/
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 : 526
Plugins rejected : 136
Plugins closed : 34
Plugins approved : 237
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4967
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4289
(2026-03-30 – 2026-04-05) : 514
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 837
(pending; replied to)* : 4130
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3759
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 323
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 48
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1178
New Conversations: 569
Customers: 1108
Conversations per Day: 147
Busiest Day: Thursday
Messages Received: 707
Replies Sent: 2060
Emails Created: 459
* : 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
33 Block themes are currently being reviewed
16 Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 10
Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 9
Emails Created 0
Resolved 7
Resolved on First Reply 86%
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 68 active issues and 7 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 : 531
Plugins rejected : 272
Plugins closed : 35
Plugins approved : 272
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4822
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4148
(2026-03-23 – 2026-03-29) : 518
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 864
(pending; replied to)* : 3958
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3611
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 311
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 36
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1242
New Conversations: 639
Customers: 1183
Conversations per Day: 155
Busiest Day: Wednesday
Messages Received: 767
Replies Sent: 2279
Emails Created: 547
* : 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
33 Block themes are currently being reviewed
11 Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 8
Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 5
Emails Created 0
Resolved 5
Resolved on First Reply 40%
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 68 active issues and 7 pull requests in GitHub.
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/
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