Themes team update March 18, 2025

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
  • 65 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 18 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 27 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 55 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 3 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 874 tickets were opened
  • 874 tickets were closed
    • 861 tickets were made live.
      • 35 new Themes were made live.
      • 826 Theme updates were made live.
      • 3 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 13 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: 7 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif@kristynabennett)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 6Messages Received 7
Replies Sent 5Emails Created 0
Resolved 4Resolved on First Reply 75%

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 7 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.
  • The Darken theme is live on the WordPress.org repository. This theme is a community themes initiative.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Test Team Update: 17 March 2025

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since March 10, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 16 (change: 0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2031 (change: +8)
  • Need patch testing: 196 (change: -4)
  • Need unit tests: 105 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 250 (change: -5)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 1 (change: 0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 12 (change: +7)
  • Need patch testing: 7 (change: 0)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: -5)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 15 (change: +4)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 0 (change: -3)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 13 (change: +1)

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Plugin Review Team: 17 March 2025

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 : 234
  • Plugins rejected : 135
  • Plugins closed : 136
  • Plugins approved : 121

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1502
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1202
    • (2025-03-10 – 2025-03-16) : 232
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 309
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1193
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1063
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 121
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 9

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 883
  • New Conversations: 551
  • Customers: 718
  • Conversations per Day: 110
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 574
  • Replies Sent: 1323
  • Emails Created: 359

* : 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

Test Team Update: 10 March 2025

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since March 3, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 16 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2023 (change: +5)
  • Need patch testing: 200 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 105 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 255 (change: -4)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 1 (change: -1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 5 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 7 (change: -7)
  • Need unit tests: 6 (change: +4)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 11 (change: -10)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 2 (change: 0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 3 (change: -18)
  • Need patch testing: 6 (change: +5)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 12 (change: +4)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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Themes team update March 11, 2025

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
  • 65 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 20 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 43 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 51 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 688 tickets were opened
  • 702 tickets were closed
    • 682 tickets were made live.
      • 39 new Themes were made live.
      • 643 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 20 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: 7 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif@kristynabennett)

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
  • 10 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 9Messages Received 13
Replies Sent 11Emails Created 1
Resolved 10Resolved on First Reply 70%

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 7 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.
  • 150+ themes were suspended this week, as they were not updated and had security issues. And also with affiliate spam links.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugin Review Team: 10 March 2025

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 : 216
  • Plugins rejected : 76
  • Plugins closed : 79
  • Plugins approved : 72

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1513
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1228
    • (2025-03-03 – 2025-03-09) : 208
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 298
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1215
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1051
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 153
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 11

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 644
  • New Conversations: 338
  • Customers: 532
  • Conversations per Day: 80
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 511
  • Replies Sent: 859
  • Emails Created: 182

* : 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 March 04, 2025

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
  • 79 tickets are assigned.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 9 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 30 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 62 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 5 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 911 tickets were opened
  • 913 tickets were closed
    • 900 tickets were made live.
      • 42 new Themes were made live.
      • 858 Theme updates were made live.
      • 5 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 12 tickets were not approved.
    • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 8 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif, @kristynabennett, @tanvirul)

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
  • 11 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 12Emails Created 2
Resolved 10Resolved on First Reply 70%

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 60 active issues and 7 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 42 issues.
  • 2 themes suspended this week, as they were not updated and had security issues.

Plugin Review Team: 3 March 2025

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 : 180
  • Plugins rejected : 67
  • Plugins closed : 63
  • Plugins approved : 90

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1464
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1204
    • (2025-02-24 – 2025-03-02) : 187
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 188
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1276
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1126
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 140
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 10

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 729
  • New Conversations: 423
  • Customers: 627
  • Conversations per Day: 91
  • Busiest Day: Sunday
  • Messages Received: 392
  • Replies Sent: 1004
  • Emails Created: 317

* : 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

Test Team Update: 24 February 2025

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

 👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

 📊 Current totals (since Feb 17, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 19 (change: 0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2017 (change: -1)
  • Need patch testing: 213 (change: +2)
  • Need unit tests: 100 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 264 (change: +3)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 11 (change: -6)
  • Need patch testing: 10 (change: +3)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: 0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 13 (change: -39)

 🟣 Closed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 3 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 3 (change: -4)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 8 (change: -11)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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Plugin Review Team: 24 February 2025

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 : 215
  • Plugins rejected : 88
  • Plugins closed : 144
  • Plugins approved : 107

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 1407
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1121
    • (2025-02-17 – 2025-02-23) : 205
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 222
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1185
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1046
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 129
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 10

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 909
  • New Conversations: 528
  • Customers: 695
  • Conversations per Day: 113
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Messages Received: 516
  • Replies Sent: 1233
  • Emails Created: 376

* : 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