Polyglots Week in Review: December 3, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (December 3, 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 December 3, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to November 26, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208
  • Releases:
    • Up to date: 63 (-10)
    • Behind by minor versions: 0 (±0)
    • Behind by one major version: 11 (+11)
    • Behind by more than one major version: 56 (±0)
    • Have site but never released: 5
    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 28 (+11)
  • 95–99% Translated: 29 (-10)
  • 90–94% Translated: 14 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 40 (-1)
  • 0–49% Translated: 87 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 31 / 7,631 total (+5)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 804 (+1)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,538 (+17)
  • Translation Contributors: 80,326 (+72)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 57.41% (+0.054%) 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

  • December 3, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • December 10, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 17, 2025 at 13:00 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

Themes team update December 2, 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.
    • 4 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 14 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 20 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 46 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 6 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1057 tickets were opened
  • 1056 tickets were closed
    • 1030 tickets were made live.
      • 28 new Themes were made live.
      • 1002 Theme updates were made live.
      • 6 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 26 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: 8 (@acosmin@kafleg@bijayyadav@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@ammarsaif@shivashankerbhatta@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

  • 26 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 17 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 5Emails Created 1
Resolved 3Resolved on First Reply 0%

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 62 active issues and 7 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Polyglots Week in Review: November 25, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 25, 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 November 25, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to November 18, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

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

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 17 (+10)
  • 95–99% Translated: 39 (-9)
  • 90–94% Translated: 14 (-1)
  • 50–89% Translated: 41 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 87 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 32 / 7,604 total (+12)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 803 (±0)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,513 (+13)
  • Translation Contributors: 80,240 (+80)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 57.356% (-0.0036%) 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

  • December 3, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • December 10, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 17, 2025 at 13:00 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

Themes team update November 25, 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
  • 56 tickets are assigned.
    • 4 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 12 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 20 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 33 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 9 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1120 tickets were opened
  • 1122 tickets were closed
    • 1105 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 1069 Theme updates were made live.
      • 9 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 17 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: 8 (@acosmin@kafleg@bijayyadav@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@ammarsaif@shivashankerbhatta@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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 11Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 25Emails Created 6
Resolved 11Resolved on First Reply 51%

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

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Polyglots Week in Review: November 18, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 18, 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 November 18, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to November 11, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

  • Total Locales: 208
  • Releases:
    • Up to date: 72 (-1)
    • Behind by minor versions: 2 (+1)
    • Behind by one major version: 0 (±0)
    • Behind by more than one major version: 56 (±0)
    • Have site but never released: 5
    • Have no site: 73

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 7 (-37)
  • 95–99% Translated: 48 (+25)
  • 90–94% Translated: 15 (+9)
  • 50–89% Translated: 41 (+2)
  • 0–49% Translated: 87 (+1)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 20 / 7,580 total (+8)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 803 (±0)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,500 (+13)
  • Translation Contributors: 80,160 (+99)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 56.392% (-0.022%) 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

  • November 19, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • November 26, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 3, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • December 10, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 17, 2025 at 13:00 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

Themes team update November 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.
    • 5 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 12 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 25 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 46 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1311 tickets were opened
  • 1331 tickets were closed
    • 1306 tickets were made live.
      • 46 new Themes were made live.
      • 1260 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 25 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: 8 (@acosmin@kafleg@bijayyadav@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@ammarsaif, @shivashankerbhatta, @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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 23Messages Received 28
Replies Sent 11Emails Created 1
Resolved 11Resolved on First Reply 64%

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

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Polyglots Week in Review: November 11, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 11, 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 November 11, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to November 4, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

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

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 44 (±0)
  • 95–99% Translated: 23 (±0)
  • 90–94% Translated: 6 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 39 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 12 / 7,566 total (+6)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 35 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 803 (+1)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,487 (+7)
  • Translation Contributors: 80,061 (+82)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 57.37% (+0.011%) 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

  • November 12, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • November 19, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • November 26, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 3, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • December 10, 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

Themes team update November 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
  • 68 tickets are assigned.
    • 7 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 15 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 28 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 55 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 13 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1395 tickets were opened
  • 1382 tickets were closed
    • 1370 tickets were made live.
      • 24 new Themes were made live.
      • 1346 Theme updates were made live.
      • 13 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 12 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

  • 25 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 8Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 2
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 33%

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

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Polyglots Week in Review: November 4, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 4, 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 November 4, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to October 28, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

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

🌍 Translation Coverage

  • Total Locales with Projects: 210
  • 100% Translated: 44 (+3)
  • 95–99% Translated: 23 (−3)
  • 90–94% Translated: 6 (±0)
  • 50–89% Translated: 39 (±0)
  • 0–49% Translated: 86 (±0)
  • Language Packs Generated: 86 (±0)
  • No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

  • Unresolved Editor Requests: 6 / 7,558 total (-3)
  • Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

  • General Translation Editors (GTEs): 802 (±0)
  • Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,480 (+7)
  • Translation Contributors: 79,979 (+97)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

  • 57.359% (-0.001%) 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

  • November 5, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • November 12, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • November 19, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
  • November 26, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
  • December 3, 2025 at 13:00 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

Themes team update November 4, 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
  • 56 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 9 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 19 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 36 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 7 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1016 tickets were opened
  • 1024 tickets were closed
    • 1000 tickets were made live.
      • 38 new Themes were made live.
      • 962 Theme updates were made live.
      • 6 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 24 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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 14Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 16Emails Created 7
Resolved 8Resolved on First Reply 38%

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