Bijay Yadav 10:02 am on December 9, 2025
Tags: themes ( 509 ), weekly updates ( 204 )

Themes team update December 9, 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
88 tickets are assigned.
- 8 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 18 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 38 tickets are older than 1 week
- 65 tickets are older than 3 days
1 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1609 tickets were opened
1596 tickets were closed
- 1572 tickets were made live.
  - 22 new Themes were made live.
  - 1550 Theme updates were made live.
  - 1 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: 9 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @bijayyadav, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @ammarsaif, @shivashankerbhatta, @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

33 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 16	Messages Received 19
Replies Sent 13	Emails Created 5
Resolved 11	Resolved 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 61 active issues and 8 pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 4:59 pm on December 8, 2025
Tags: plugins ( 570 )

Plugins Team: 8 Dec 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 : 348
Plugins rejected : 291
Plugins closed : 971
Plugins approved : 194

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4196
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3741
- (2025-12-01 – 2025-12-07) : 350
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 386
- (pending; replied to)* : 3810
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3560
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 188
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 62

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 1961
New Conversations: 771
Customers: 1697
Conversations per Day: 245
Busiest Day: Thursday
Messages Received: 815
Replies Sent: 2023
Emails Created: 546

* : 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 1:57 pm on December 8, 2025
Tags: test ( 169 )

Test Team Update: 8 December, 2025

Note: We have updated the filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. criteria for identifying reproduction issues. As a result, the ticket counts in this report may differ significantly from previous bi-weekly reports. These numbers reflect the new filtering logic and will be used going forward.

💡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 November 24, 2025):

Need testing info: 48 (change: 0)
Need to reproduce issue: 171 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 25 (change: -1)
Need unit tests: 98 (change: +2)
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 270 (change: +7)

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: 1 (change: -4)
Needs Testing: 14 (change: -5)

New/Changed two weeks:

Need testing info: 0 (change: -1)
Need to reproduce issue: 0 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 2 (change: -1)
Need unit tests: 2 (change: -1)
Need review (have patch and unit tests): 21 (change: +11)

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: 15 (change: +10)
Need patch testing: 0 (change: 0)
Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
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

Rade Jekić 8:53 pm on December 3, 2025

Training Team Update – December 3rd, 2025

Hello, 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 members nominated and elected new Training Team Reps for 2026 – read all about it in this article
📢 The first task for the new Training Team Reps was to announce the Call for Admin Team Members. It is still open, so if you want to help us, feel free to leave a comment in the blog post!
🛠 Thanks to Jonathan Bossenger, the Training Team started working on a new project – Help Secure the Learn WordPress Code Examples. Feel free to join us on this interesting ride!
🏫 A new cohort specially created for all Bengali users is in it’s fourth week – আপনার ব্লক এডিটর যাত্রার প্রথম ধাপ: 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 Course Cohort in Bengali. It is planned to be a 6-week-long cohort, so stay tuned for the updates from @devmuhib and all others involved!
🏕️ Workshops are live again: We managed to create and conduct 4 Workshops during October. Most of them are uploaded to WordPress TV.
🖼️ 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!
⏸️ Unfortunately, we had to pause Training Team Coffee Hour meetings. We decided to shift our focus to creating new content and workshops, and onboarding new admin team members, so we must take a little break from Coffee Hour sessions. But as soon as we consolidate, we will restart our Coffee Hour sessions – we have the recipe, and we will prepare all the ingredients soon :).

⚒️ Training Team Activities in November Overview

We hosted 4 team meetings and 1 Coffee Hour meeting from the Training Team. Weekly meetings were facilitated by team reps, and Coffee Hour by Rico F. Lüthi. You can read the recap notes on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	16
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	3
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	26
👀 Translations ready to review	0

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	19
📖 Translated content	6
🖊️ Translation in progress	10
🪚 Workshops completed	4

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

Ahmed Kabir Chaion 12:55 pm on December 3, 2025
Tags: polyglots ( 39 ), updates ( 15 ), week in review ( 23 ), weekly updates ( 204 )

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

Bijay Yadav 3:14 pm on December 2, 2025
Tags: themes ( 509 ), weekly updates ( 204 )

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)