Francisco Torres 3:22 pm on October 21, 2025
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Plugins Team: 20 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 : 260
  • Plugins rejected : 21
  • Plugins closed : 105
  • Plugins approved : 137

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 3786
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3421
    • (2025-10-13 – 2025-10-19) : 250
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 256
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3530
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3207
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 268
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 55

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1006
  • New Conversations: 506
  • Customers: 889
  • Conversations per Day: 125
  • Busiest Day: Friday
  • Messages Received: 459
  • Replies Sent: 1455
  • Emails Created: 421

* : 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 3:04 pm on October 14, 2025
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Themes team update October 14, 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
  • 66 tickets are assigned.
    • 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 3 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 18 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 45 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 5 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1377 tickets were opened
  • 1362 tickets were closed
    • 1328 tickets were made live.
      • 22 new Themes were made live.
      • 1306 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 29 tickets were not approved.
    • 5 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: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @bijayyadav, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb)

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 9Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 10Emails Created 1
Resolved 10Resolved 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 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 5:34 pm on October 13, 2025
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Plugins Team: 13 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 : 275
  • Plugins rejected : 24
  • Plugins closed : 101
  • Plugins approved : 133

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 3645
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3284
    • (2025-10-06 – 2025-10-12) : 257
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 291
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3354
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3084
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 217
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 53

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 951
  • New Conversations: 524
  • Customers: 851
  • Conversations per Day: 118
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 535
  • Replies Sent: 1297
  • Emails Created: 407

* : 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 9:53 am on October 7, 2025
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Themes team update October 7, 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
  • 45 tickets are assigned.
    • 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 7 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 14 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 28 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 5 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 923 tickets were opened
  • 931 tickets were closed
    • 884 tickets were made live.
      • 35 new Themes were made live.
      • 849 Theme updates were made live.
      • 5 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 47 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 )

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

  • 14 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 10Messages Received 16
Replies Sent 17Emails Created 2
Resolved 13Resolved on First Reply 54%

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 2:21 pm on October 6, 2025
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Plugins Team: 6 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 : 256
  • Plugins rejected : 9
  • Plugins closed : 124
  • Plugins approved : 120

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 3516
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3191
    • (2025-09-29 – 2025-10-05) : 250
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 329
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3187
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 2943
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 189
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 55

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 972
  • New Conversations: 436
  • Customers: 811
  • Conversations per Day: 121
  • Busiest Day: Wednesday
  • Messages Received: 463
  • Replies Sent: 1278
  • Emails Created: 365

* : 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 6:56 am on October 6, 2025
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Documentation Team Update – October 6, 2025

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

2 pull requests merged.

11 issues closed.

9 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Ahmed Kabir Chaion 12:51 pm on October 1, 2025
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Polyglots Week in Review: October 1, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (October 1, 2025), a weekly roundup to keep everyone updated on the Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.’s stats, highlights, and ways to contribute.

📊 Weekly Stats (as of October 1, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to September 24, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208
  • Releases:
    • Up to date: 73 (+1)
    • Behind by minor versions: 1 (±0)
    • Behind by one major version: 0 (±0)
    • Behind by more than one major version: 56 (-1)
    • Have site but never released: 5
    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 18 (-24)
  • 95–99% Translated: 48 (+24)
  • 90–94% Translated: 7 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 39 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 85 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 20 / 7,479 total (+4)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (-1)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 799 (-1)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,418 (+21)
  • Translation Contributors: 79,510 (+85)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 57.223% (-0.016%) of WordPress sites are running a translated version of WordPress.

📌 Highlights

Here are some posts and focus area that you might want to check out:

✋ Requests & Help Needed

Want to help more? Consider reviewing open translation requests or helping guide new contributors in your locale. Don’t forget to check the Translation Editors Handbook!

📅 Upcoming Meetings

  • October 8, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • October 15, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • October 22, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • October 29, 2025 at 7:00 GMT

🗓 Find full details here: 👉 make.wordpress.org/meetings Regular #polyglots meetings:

  • Global Polyglots Chat (Asia-Pacific): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 7:00 GMT
  • Global Polyglots Chat (Europe/Africa/Americas): Wednesdays, bi-weekly at 13:00 GMT

👥 Want to help lead a meeting? Let us know in #polyglots!

Thank you to everyone contributing to translations and making WordPress accessible in your language. 🌍💛

#polyglots, #updates, #week-in-review, #weekly-updates

Rade Jekić 7:53 am on October 1, 2025  

Training Team Update – October 1, 2025

Hello, Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished this month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

  • 🏫 The first cohort from the Training Team has officially ended – we finished this 6-week course titled “WordPress 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. Editor Basics“. Once we get the survey results, we will post them in a new P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. blog. Congratulations to all attendees! Special thanks to @devmuhib and @rfluethi for leading this cohort.
  • 🏕️ Workshops are live again: the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2025 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. pumped new blood into the Training Team and brought us new people with new Workshop ideas – we managed to host 4 new Workshops and prepared and scheduled 4 of them for the next week. We are also planning more Workshops in local languages. Stay tuned for more info!
  • 🖼️ Collaboration with WP Campus Connect project: the Training Team started collaboration with the WP Campus Connect and WP Credits project. We are working on translations and helping with event preparation. More to come in next month!
  • 🧭 Training Team Coffee Hour course is steady again! It is added to the Training Team meeting calendar, and it is held every Saturday at 13UTC.

⚒️ Training Team Activities in September Overview

We hosted 5 team meetings and 4 Coffee Hours from the Training Team. Weekly meetings were facilitated by team reps, and coffee hours by Training Team contributors. You can read the recap notes on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

ProjectNumber of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation12
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix25
👀 Translations ready to review8

📋 Project Update

Task TypeCompleted
🧯 Closed feedback tasks18
📖 Translated content6
🖊️ Translation in progress11

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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌

+make.wordpress.org/training/

#training

Bijay Yadav 1:13 am on October 1, 2025
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Themes team update October 1, 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
  • 49 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 8 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 19 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 34 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 8 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 752 tickets were opened
  • 743 tickets were closed
    • 734 tickets were made live.
      • 21 new Themes were made live.
      • 713 Theme updates were made live.
      • 8 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 9 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 )

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 15Messages Received 18
Replies Sent 12Emails Created 2
Resolved 11Resolved on First Reply 55%

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

Olga Gleckler 8:41 pm on September 30, 2025
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Test Team Update: 30 September, 2025

💡If you don’t know how to start, join Patch testing scrub ☕ on Thursday 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 September 16, 2025):

  • Need testing info: 46 (change: 0)
  • Need to reproduce issue: 1988 (change: +7)
  • Need patch testing: 23 (change: +1)
  • Need unit tests: 96 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 286 (change: +5)

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: 10 (change: -1)
  • Needs Testing: 14 (change: +5)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

  • Need testing info: 2 (change: +1)
  • Need to reproduce issue: 19 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 9 (change: -3)
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 32 (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: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need to reproduce issue: 13 (change: -10)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: 0)
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 1 (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