Bijay Yadav 3:08 pm on September 29, 2026
Tags: themes ( 548 ), weekly updates ( 243 )

Themes team update September 29, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

98 new tickets are waiting for review.
- 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 18 tickets are older than 1 week
- 70 tickets are older than 3 days
53 tickets are assigned.
- 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 30 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 52 tickets are older than 1 week
- 53 tickets are older than 3 days
3 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
73 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

666 tickets were opened
609 tickets were closed
- 573 tickets were made live.
  - 56 new Themes were made live.
  - 517 Theme updates were made live.
  - 3 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
  - 73 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 36 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: 12 (@aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @bikram_sth, @dimikjones, @fahimmurshed, @franchidesign, @kafleg, @luzuk, @noruzzaman, @productiveminds, @vowelweb, @wpinterface)

ii) 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 Stats

53 Block themes are currently being reviewed
30 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 4	Messages Received 11
Replies Sent 1	Emails Created 0
Resolved 0	Resolved on First Reply 0%

iv) Extras

Create Block Theme 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. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 95 active issues and 14 pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 8:10 pm on September 28, 2026
Tags: plugins ( 608 )

Plugins Team: 28 Sep 2026

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. Status Change Stats

Plugins requested : 1021
Plugins rejected : 237
Plugins closed : 76
Plugins approved : 820

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4598
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3849
- (2026-09-21 – 2026-09-27) : 507
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 30
- (pending; replied to)* : 4568
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3860
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 475
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 233

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 2307
New Conversations: 1368
Customers: 1912
Conversations per Day: 288
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1820
Replies Sent: 4618
Emails Created: 1081

* : 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

#plugins

Huzaifa Al Mesbah 4:02 pm on September 28, 2026
Tags: test ( 189 )

Test Team Update: 25 September, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ held every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm UTC in the #core-test.

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).
Note that review implies code validation and addresses developers.

📊 Current totals (since 11 September, 2026):

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

Need to reproduce issue: 130 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 132 (change: +3)

GutenbergGutenberg The 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/

Need to reproduce issue: 15 (change: +1)
Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

Need to reproduce issue: 5 (change: +3)
Need patch testing: 12 (change: +2)

Gutenberg

Need to reproduce issue: 1 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 0 (change: 0)

To know more about these reports and what you can do, connect with the Test Team over in #core-test or ➡️ check the full meetings schedule.

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Milana Cap 9:02 am on September 28, 2026
Tags: docs ( 226 )

Documentation Team Update – September 28, 2026

New schema for docs meetings:

1st in the month – 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/ chat
2nd in the month – Video call
3rd in the month – Slack chat
4th in the month – 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ (video)
5th in the month – Video call

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

To do: 359
In progress: 30
Review: 91

By version:

7.1: 12
7.0: 0
6.9: 4
6.8: 0
6.7: 19
6.6: 18
6.5: 8
6.4: 32
6.3: 1

By project:

Past month

0 pull requests merged.

95 issues closed.

12 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Bijay Yadav 3:39 am on September 23, 2026
Tags: themes ( 548 ), weekly updates ( 243 )

Themes team update September 22, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

102 new tickets are waiting for review.
- 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 33 tickets are older than 1 week
- 71 tickets are older than 3 days
43 tickets are assigned.
- 5 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 16 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 43 tickets are older than 1 week
- 43 tickets are older than 3 days
4 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
28 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1051 tickets were opened
1127 tickets were closed
- 1088 tickets were made live.
  - 39 new Themes were made live.
  - 1049 Theme updates were made live.
  - 4 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
  - 28 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 39 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: 10 (@bijayyadav, @dimikjones, @fahimmurshed, @franchidesign, @kafleg, @luzuk, @productiveminds, @softglaze, @vowelweb, @wpinterface)