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 : 542
Plugins rejected : 139
Plugins closed : 59
Plugins approved : 257
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4721
(older than 7 days ago)** : 3982
(2026-03-16 – 2026-03-22) : 558
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 794
(pending; replied to)* : 3927
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3642
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 254
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 31
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1308
New Conversations: 676
Customers: 1230
Conversations per Day: 163
Busiest Day: Thursday
Messages Received: 684
Replies Sent: 2160
Emails Created: 569
* : 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
39 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 7
Messages Received 13
Replies Sent 7
Emails Created 0
Resolved 6
Resolved on First Reply 83%
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 : 553
Plugins rejected : 221
Plugins closed : 45
Plugins approved : 249
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4704
(older than 7 days ago)** : 3970
(2026-03-09 – 2026-03-15) : 537
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 867
(pending; replied to)* : 3837
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3534
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 278
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 25
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1303
New Conversations: 676
Customers: 1217
Conversations per Day: 162
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 771
Replies Sent: 2325
Emails Created: 548
* : 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
35 Block themes are currently being reviewed
1 Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 24
Messages Received 25
Replies Sent 19
Emails Created 10
Resolved 6
Resolved on First Reply 67%
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 67 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/
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 : 513
Plugins rejected : 158
Plugins closed : 96
Plugins approved : 213
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4597
(older than 7 days ago)** : 3925
(2026-03-02 – 2026-03-08) : 484
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 710
(pending; replied to)* : 3887
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3525
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 336
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 26
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 1215
New Conversations: 595
Customers: 1075
Conversations per Day: 151
Busiest Day: Tuesday
Messages Received: 730
Replies Sent: 2090
Emails Created: 495
* : 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
25 Block themes are currently being reviewed
18 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 11
Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 17
Emails Created 8
Resolved 7
Resolved on First Reply 57%
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 10000+ active installs. There are 64 active issues and 8 pull requests in GitHub.
Hello 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!
🏫 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, and before turning it into a full course, we want to build the learning pathway together with the community. Let’s do this together – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3381
🏕️ Workshops are live again: Thanks to our colleagues @devmuhib and @sumitsingh, we finished four workshops in February –
🖼️ Collaboration with WP Campus Connect project: Weekly Campus Connect Office Hours are now taking place 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. This time is dedicated to current and potential organizers to ask questions about upcoming events and exchange experiences.
⚒️ Training Team Activities in February Overview
We held 4 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
Project
Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review
10
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation
18
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting
3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix
26
👀 Translations ready to review
4
📋 Project Update
Task Type
Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks
20
📖 Translated content
4
🖊️ Translation in progress
14
🪚 Workshops completed
4
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 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. 🙌
“(change: N)” represents changes from prior 2 weeks (unless noted).
Current totals (since March 10, 2026):
New/Changed two weeks:
check the full meetings schedule.
