Francisco Torres 5:19 pm on February 16, 2026
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Plugins Team: 16 Feb 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 : 467
  • Plugins rejected : 156
  • Plugins closed : 64
  • Plugins approved : 226

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4232
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3629
    • (2026-02-09 – 2026-02-15) : 442
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 451
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3781
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3438
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 309
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 34

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1126
  • New Conversations: 544
  • Customers: 1029
  • Conversations per Day: 140
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 620
  • Replies Sent: 1819
  • Emails Created: 443

* : 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

Bijay Yadav 3:46 pm on February 10, 2026
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Themes team update February 10, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 20 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 3 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 67 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 13 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 23 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 56 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 8 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1049 tickets were opened
  • 1035 tickets were closed
    • 1001 tickets were made live.
      • 22 new Themes were made live.
      • 979 Theme updates were made live.
      • 7 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 34 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 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 5Messages Received 6
Replies Sent 6Emails Created 1
Resolved 5Resolved on First Reply 80%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 65 active issues and 13 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 17 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Nikunj Hatkar 2:36 pm on February 10, 2026
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Test Team Update: 10 February, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ every week on Tuesday 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 January 19, 2026):

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

  • Need to reproduce issue: 142 (change: -38)
  • Need patch testing: 103 (change: -154)

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: 3 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

  • Need to reproduce issue: 1 (change: 0)
  • Need patch testing: 13 (change: +10)

Gutenberg

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

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 3:15 pm on February 9, 2026
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Documentation Team Update – February 9, 2026

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

0 pull requests merged.

25 issues closed.

27 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Bijay Yadav 2:51 pm on February 3, 2026
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Themes team update February 3, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 73 tickets are assigned.
    • 6 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 20 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 41 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 56 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 4 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1110 tickets were opened
  • 1119 tickets were closed
    • 1090 tickets were made live.
      • 15 new Themes were made live.
      • 1075 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 29 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 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @kaninis, @tskk, @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 16Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 9Emails Created 2
Resolved 7Resolved on First Reply 86%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 64 active issues and 13 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 12:59 pm on February 2, 2026
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Plugins Team: 2 Feb 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 : 419
  • Plugins rejected : 185
  • Plugins closed : 123
  • Plugins approved : 187

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4070
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3574
    • (2026-01-26 – 2026-02-01) : 390
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 348
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3722
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3447
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 238
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 37

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1110
  • New Conversations: 519
  • Customers: 1002
  • Conversations per Day: 138
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 694
  • Replies Sent: 1853
  • Emails Created: 391

* : 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

Milana Cap 11:03 am on February 2, 2026
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Documentation Team Update – February 2, 2026

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

0 pull requests merged.

31 issues closed.

30 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Rade Jekić 7:51 am on February 2, 2026  

Training Team Update – February 2nd, 2026

Hello, 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!

⚒️ Training Team Activities in January Overview

As January fell during the holiday season, we held 2 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps. We also decided to put the Coffee Hour on hold until further notice. You can read the meeting recap notes on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

ProjectNumber of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation20
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix26
👀 Translations ready to review0

📋 Project Update

Task TypeCompleted
🧯 Closed feedback tasks26
📖 Translated content6
🖊️ Translation in progress10
🪚 Workshops completed1

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, helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub 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. 🙌

+make.wordpress.org/training/

#training

Bijay Yadav 1:36 pm on January 27, 2026
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Themes team update January 27, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 82 tickets are assigned.
    • 9 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 31 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 52 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 70 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 919 tickets were opened
  • 935 tickets were closed
    • 925 tickets were made live.
      • 28 new Themes were made live.
      • 897 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 10 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 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @kaninis, @tskk, @mhamal)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 8Messages Received 11
Replies Sent 7Emails Created 0
Resolved 5Resolved on First Reply 40%

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 10000+ active installs. There are 63 active issues and 13 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 5:45 pm on January 26, 2026
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Plugins Team: 26 Jan 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 : 409
  • Plugins rejected : 136
  • Plugins closed : 67
  • Plugins approved : 220

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4020
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3555
    • (2026-01-19 – 2026-01-25) : 355
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 249
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3771
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3441
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 289
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 41

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1164
  • New Conversations: 565
  • Customers: 1039
  • Conversations per Day: 145
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 708
  • Replies Sent: 1993
  • Emails Created: 451

* : 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