Training Team Updates – November 2024

This post reports on the Training Team’s progress with projects. For a detailed list of new content recently published on Learn WordPress, see the latest edition of the Learn WordPress Newsletter: Learn WordPress Newsletter – November 2024


Content Creation on Learn WordPress

Learning Pathways

Other Projects and News

The team is considering ways to introduce Learn resources in the wp-admin dashboard. Join the discussion in Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding.

See this month’s Contributor Spotlight: Margherita Pelonara.

The third Learn WordPress Course Cohort received many applications. The cohort is starting on Monday, November 4th.

Nomination for 2025 Training Team Reps has closed. Voting will open on November 5th once responses from nominees have been confirmed.


Learn GitHub Repository Status

Reporting period: 2024-10-01 to 2024-10-31
(Figures in parentheses show change from previous month.)

Issues and Pull Requests

  • Issues created: 95 (+32)
  • Issues closed: 48 (+22)
  • Issues open: 468 (-92)
  • Pull requests created: 3 (+1)
  • Pull requests closed: 2 (+1)
  • Pull requests open: 15 (+-0)

Issue activity increased in the buildup to the relaunch of https://learn.wordpress.org/ in August this year. Post-launch, issue activity has gone back to normal.

Weekly number of issues closed and opened from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024

Active Members

  • GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. authors: 4 (+4)
  • Issue authors: 21 (+-0)
  • PR submitters: 3 (+1)

Of these, 1 Git author, 7 issue authors, and 1 PR submitter made their first contribution last month 🎉

Weekly number of issue submitters from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024

Plugin Review Team: 28 October 2024

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 : 178
  • Plugins rejected : 15
  • Plugins closed : 297
  • Plugins approved : 59

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2409
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 2210
    • (2024-10-21 – 2024-10-27) : 157
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 80
    • (pending; replied to)* : 2329
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1987
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 321
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 21

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1269
  • New Conversations: 904
  • Customers: 806
  • Conversations per Day: 158
  • Busiest Day: Sunday
  • Messages Received: 865
  • Replies Sent: 1296
  • Emails Created: 396

* : 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

Documentation Team Update – October 28, 2024

The Documentation team meeting schedule:

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past week

1 pull requests merged.

23 issues closed.

44 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Documentation Team Update – October 22, 2024

The Documentation team meeting schedule:

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past week

0 pull requests merged.

4 issues closed.

3 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Themes team update October 22, 2024

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is 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
  • 90 tickets are assigned.
    • 4 tickets is older than 4 weeks
    • 43 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 65 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 80 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 1 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 751 tickets were opened
  • 755 tickets were closed
    • 741 tickets were made live.
      • 20 new Themes were made live.
      • 721 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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.

Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb,@bijayyadav)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 6Messages Received 10
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 0
Resolved 7Resolved on First Reply 71%

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 58 active issues and 2 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 14 PRs and 40 issues.
  • Twenty Twenty-Five development started. https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive/

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugin Review Team: 21 October 2024

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 : 203
  • Plugins rejected : 11
  • Plugins closed : 211
  • Plugins approved : 159

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2326
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 2118
    • (2024-10-14 – 2024-10-20) : 139
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 41
    • (pending; replied to)* : 2285
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 2037
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 224
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 24

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1141
  • New Conversations: 716
  • Customers: 830
  • Conversations per Day: 142
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Messages Received: 783
  • Replies Sent: 1619
  • Emails Created: 408

* : 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

Themes team update October 15, 2024

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is 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
  • 90 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets is older than 4 weeks
    • 11 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 52 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 79 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 665 tickets were opened
  • 650 tickets were closed
    • 645 tickets were made live.
      • 25 new Themes were made live.
      • 620 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 5 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.

Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb,@bijayyadav)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 6Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 10Emails Created 1
Resolved 8Resolved on First Reply 63%

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 58 active issues and 2 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 13 PRs and 40 issues.
  • Twenty Twenty-Five development started. https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive/

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugin Review Team: 14 October 2024

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 : 190
  • Plugins rejected : 14
  • Plugins closed : 133
  • Plugins approved : 175

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2279
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 2090
    • (2024-10-07 – 2024-10-13) : 141
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 27
    • (pending; replied to)* : 2252
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 2027
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 204
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 21

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 938
  • New Conversations: 503
  • Customers: 744
  • Conversations per Day: 117
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Messages Received: 745
  • Replies Sent: 1507
  • Emails Created: 307

* : 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

Documentation Team Update – October 14, 2024

The Documentation team meeting schedule:

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past week

2 pull requests merged.

3 issues closed.

32 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Themes team update October 08, 2024

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is 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
  • 74 tickets are assigned.
    • 1 tickets is older than 4 weeks
    • 6 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 17 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 50 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 4 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 709 tickets were opened
  • 697 tickets were closed
    • 683 tickets were made live.
      • 32 new Themes were made live.
      • 651 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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.

Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb, @bijayyadav)

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

  • 17 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 11Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 9Emails Created 2
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 100%

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 57 active issues and 2 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 39 issues.
  • Twenty Twenty-Five development started. https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive/

#themes, #weekly-updates