Bijay Yadav 3:02 am on October 29, 2025
Tags: themes ( 505 ), weekly updates ( 197 )

Themes team update October 29, 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
70 tickets are assigned.
- 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 18 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 32 tickets are older than 1 week
- 51 tickets are older than 3 days
1 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

920 tickets were opened
933 tickets were closed
- 924 tickets were made live.
  - 31 new Themes were made live.
  - 893 Theme updates were made live.
  - 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 8 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. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 7 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @bijayyadav, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @ammarsaif, @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
14 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 7	Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 17	Emails Created 4
Resolved 14	Resolved on First Reply 43%

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 6 Pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 7:29 pm on October 27, 2025
Tags: plugins ( 566 )

Plugins Team: 27 Oct 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 : 251
Plugins rejected : 35
Plugins closed : 69
Plugins approved : 132

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 3853
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3516
- (2025-10-20 – 2025-10-26) : 232
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 272
- (pending; replied to)* : 3581
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3308
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 218
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 55

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 873
New Conversations: 412
Customers: 789
Conversations per Day: 109
Busiest Day: Tuesday
Messages Received: 476
Replies Sent: 1237
Emails Created: 313

* : 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

Nikunj Hatkar 7:29 am on October 27, 2025
Tags: test ( 167 )

Test Team Update: 27 October, 2025

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch testing scrub ☕ on Thursday at 4:00 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 October 13, 2025):

Need testing info: 46 (change: 0)
Need to reproduce issue: 1988 (change: -1)
Need patch testing: 20 (change: -3)
Need unit tests: 96 (change: -1)
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 272 (change: -10)

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/

Needs More Info: 14 (change: +1)
Needs Testing: 23 (change: +11)

New/Changed two weeks:

Need testing info: 4 (change: +2)
Need to reproduce issue: 7 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 6 (change: 0)
Need unit tests: 3 (change: -1)
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 24 (change: +4)

Closed two weeks (after testing):

Closing tickets that are reporting personal issues or duplicates early saves time of contributors to do something productive.

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

Bijay Yadav 8:37 am on October 22, 2025
Tags: themes ( 505 ), weekly updates ( 197 )

Themes team update October 22, 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
53 tickets are assigned.
- 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 8 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 24 tickets are older than 1 week
- 41 tickets are older than 3 days
9 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1000 tickets were opened
1015 tickets were closed
- 993 tickets were made live.
  - 29 new Themes were made live.
  - 964 Theme updates were made live.
  - 5 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 22 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: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @bijayyadav, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @ammarsaif)