Themes team update September 15, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 86 new tickets are waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 8 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 55 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 63 tickets are assigned.
    • 11 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 21 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 62 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 62 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 2 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 60 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1246 tickets were opened
  • 1202 tickets were closed
    • 1162 tickets were made live.
      • 31 new Themes were made live.
      • 1131 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 60 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 40 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@bijayyadav@fahimmurshed@franchidesign@kafleg@productiveminds@softglaze@vowelweb@wpinterface)

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

  • 47 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 17 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 75Messages Received 79
Replies Sent 10Emails Created 0
Resolved 10Resolved on First Reply 70%

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 87 active issues and 15 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugins Team: 14 Sep 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 : 888
  • Plugins rejected : 239
  • Plugins closed : 73
  • Plugins approved : 700

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4793
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3920
    • (2026-09-07 – 2026-09-13) : 624
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 137
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4656
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3924
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 499
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 233

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 2220
  • New Conversations: 1386
  • Customers: 1929
  • Conversations per Day: 277
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 1474
  • Replies Sent: 4093
  • Emails Created: 1127

* : 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

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Documentation Team Update – September 14, 2026

New schema for docs meetings:

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

By version:

By project:

Past month

0 pull requests merged.

68 issues closed.

22 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Test Team Update: 11 September, 2026

💡If you don’t know how to start, join the Patch Testing Session ☕ held every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month 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 August 28, 2026):

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

  • Need to reproduce issue: 130 (change: 0)
  • Need patch testing: 129 (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: 14 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 1 (change: 0)

🟢 New/Changed two weeks:

Core

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

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

Themes team update September 8, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 62 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
    • 29 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 77 tickets are assigned.
    • 33 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 43 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 55 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 77 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 1 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 44 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1161 tickets were opened
  • 1262 tickets were closed
    • 1223 tickets were made live.
      • 46 new Themes were made live.
      • 1177 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 44 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 39 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: 13 (@acosmin@bijayyadav@dimikjones@fahimmurshed@franchidesign@kafleg@luzuk@meerab123@nitspatel@productiveminds@softglaze@vowelweb@wpinterface)

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

  • 47 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 21 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 20Messages Received 22
Replies Sent 10Emails Created 0
Resolved 10Resolved on First Reply 80%

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 86 active issues and 15 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 39 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugins Team: 7 Sep 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 : 878
  • Plugins rejected : 183
  • Plugins closed : 34
  • Plugins approved : 651

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4893
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 4000
    • (2026-08-31 – 2026-09-06) : 652
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 160
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4733
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 4050
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 465
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 218

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1948
  • New Conversations: 1147
  • Customers: 1687
  • Conversations per Day: 243
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 1370
  • Replies Sent: 3594
  • Emails Created: 909

* : 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

Training Team Update – September 7th, 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!

  • 🧳 The Training Team is working on a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
  • 🏫 We are actively working on multi-language 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. testing – we decided to reorganize all the translated content and make the Learn website easier to use for everyone. We will update you shortly.
  • 🏄🏻 Since the vacation period is (almost) over, our content base started to grow again – thanks to all new and not-so-new members. A couple of big translation projects started, and some abandoned learning pathways got new ideas and proposals…stay tuned!

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in August

  • We held 4 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps, but in the future this will be changed. We decided to give this role to all new admins in the Training Team who are willing to facilitate the meetings.
  • We held our fourth Training Team Office Hours meeting on August 22nd and scheduled the next for September 26th. You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/08/24/office-hours-meeting-recap-august-22-2026/

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

ProjectNumber of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation32
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix27
👀 Translations ready to review24

📋 Project Update

Task TypeCompleted
🧯 Closed feedback tasks22
📖 Translated content28
🖊️ Translation in progress20
🪚 Workshops completed0

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, or 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

Themes team update September 1, 2026

i)  Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 26 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
  • 102 tickets are assigned.
    • 45 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 55 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 71 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 97 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 4 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 132 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 1261 tickets were opened
  • 1377 tickets were closed
    • 1345 tickets were made live.
      • 73 new Themes were made live.
      • 1272 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
      • 132 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 32 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: 12 (@acosmin@bijayyadav@dimikjones@fahimmurshed@franchidesign@kafleg@luzuk@meerab123@nitspatel@productiveminds@softglaze, @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

  • 38 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 19 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 17Messages Received 18
Replies Sent 10Emails Created 3
Resolved 8Resolved on First Reply 63%

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 86 active issues and 15 pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 38 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Plugins Team: 31 Aug 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 : 815
  • Plugins rejected : 318
  • Plugins closed : 29
  • Plugins approved : 770

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4715
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 3854
    • (2026-08-24 – 2026-08-30) : 593
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 167
    • (pending; replied to)* : 4548
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 3958
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 372
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 218

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 2164
  • New Conversations: 1182
  • Customers: 1908
  • Conversations per Day: 270
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Messages Received: 1504
  • Replies Sent: 4097
  • Emails Created: 946

* : 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