Image Bijay Yadav 4:31 am on March 11, 2026
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Themes team update March 11, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 17 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 7 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 13 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 101 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 27 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 77 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 95 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 17 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 779 tickets were opened
  • 762 tickets were closed
    • 731 tickets were made live.
      • 6 new Themes were made live.
      • 725 Theme updates were made live.
      • 14 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 30 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: 10 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir, @dd32)

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

  • 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 24Messages Received 25
Replies Sent 19Emails Created 10
Resolved 6Resolved on First Reply 67%

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 20000+ active installs. There are 67 active issues and 7 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 43 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Nikunj Hatkar 3:50 pm on March 10, 2026
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Test Team Update: 10 March, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ every week on Tuesday 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 February 24, 2026):

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

  • Need to reproduce issue: 141 (change: 0)
  • Need patch testing: 104 (change: +4)

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/

  • Need to reproduce issue: 7 (change: +3)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

  • Need to reproduce issue: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need patch testing: 10 (change: +1)

Gutenberg

  • Need to reproduce issue: 4 (change: +3)
  • Need patch testing: 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

Image Francisco Torres 5:49 pm on March 9, 2026
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Plugins Team: 9 Mar 2026

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 : 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

#plugins

Image Bijay Yadav 4:03 am on March 4, 2026
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Themes team update March 4, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 42 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
    • 14 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 62 tickets are assigned.
    • 2 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 17 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 46 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 60 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 13 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 955 tickets were opened
  • 961 tickets were closed
    • 928 tickets were made live.
      • 30 new Themes were made live.
      • 898 Theme updates were made live.
      • 5 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 33 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, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @mhamal, @productiveminds)

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 11Messages Received 12
Replies Sent 17Emails Created 8
Resolved 7Resolved on First Reply 57%

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 8 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 43 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Rade Jekić 7:14 pm on March 2, 2026  

Training Team Update – March 2nd, 2026

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!

⚒️ 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

ProjectNumber of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review10
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation18
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix26
👀 Translations ready to review4

📋 Project Update

Task TypeCompleted
🧯 Closed feedback tasks20
📖 Translated content4
🖊️ Translation in progress14
🪚 Workshops completed4

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

+make.wordpress.org/training/

#training

Image Francisco Torres 4:06 pm on March 2, 2026
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Plugins Team: 2 Mar 2026

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 : 513
  • Plugins rejected : 173
  • Plugins closed : 36
  • Plugins approved : 197

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4423
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3757
    • (2026-02-23 – 2026-03-01) : 519
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 605
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3818
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3464
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 328
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 26

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1137
  • New Conversations: 487
  • Customers: 1019
  • Conversations per Day: 142
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 751
  • Replies Sent: 1886
  • Emails Created: 371

* : 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

Image Milana Cap 8:31 am on March 2, 2026
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Documentation Team Update – March 2, 2026

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

2 pull requests merged.

76 issues closed.

12 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Image Bijay Yadav 3:01 am on February 25, 2026
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Themes team update February 25, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 29 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
    • 11 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 77 tickets are assigned.
    • 9 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 14 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 44 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 65 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 13 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1188 tickets were opened
  • 1179 tickets were closed
    • 1153 tickets were made live.
      • 26 new Themes were made live.
      • 1127 Theme updates were made live.
      • 13 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: 9 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir)

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

  • 34 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 13Messages Received 10
Replies Sent 15Emails Created 4
Resolved 11Resolved on First Reply 82%

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 10 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 15 PRs and 43 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Image Nikunj Hatkar 9:38 am on February 24, 2026
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Test Team Update: 24 February, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ every week on Tuesday 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 February 10, 2026):

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

  • Need to reproduce issue: 141 (change: -1)
  • Need patch testing: 100 (change: -3)

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/

  • Need to reproduce issue: 4 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

  • Need to reproduce issue: 2 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 9 (change: -4)

Gutenberg

  • Need to reproduce issue: 1 (change: 0)
  • Need patch testing: 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

Image Francisco Torres 5:40 pm on February 23, 2026
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Plugins Team: 23 Feb 2026

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 : 486
  • Plugins rejected : 202
  • Plugins closed : 56
  • Plugins approved : 198

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4330
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3685
    • (2026-02-16 – 2026-02-22) : 462
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 424
    • (pending; replied to)* : 3906
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3538
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 335
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 33

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1273
  • New Conversations: 743
  • Customers: 1146
  • Conversations per Day: 159
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Messages Received: 754
  • Replies Sent: 2143
  • Emails Created: 614

* : 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