GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/
PluginPluginA 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 : 1363
Plugins rejected : 55
Plugins closed : 78
Plugins approved : 942
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 5222
(older than 7 days ago)** : 4041
(2026-10-12 – 2026-10-18) : 832
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 457
(pending; replied to)* : 4765
(pending; waiting on author)* : 4023
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 510
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 232
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 2454
New Conversations: 1482
Customers: 2080
Conversations per Day: 306
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1689
Replies Sent: 4361
Emails Created: 1191
* : 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
PluginPluginA 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 : 1259
Plugins rejected : 44
Plugins closed : 79
Plugins approved : 961
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4779
(older than 7 days ago)** : 3846
(2026-10-05 – 2026-10-11) : 678
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 30
(pending; replied to)* : 4749
(pending; waiting on author)* : 4063
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 448
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 238
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 2571
New Conversations: 1613
Customers: 2199
Conversations per Day: 321
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1789
Replies Sent: 4798
Emails Created: 1315
* : 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
GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/
ii) BlockBlockBlock 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
82 Block themes are currently being reviewed
18 block themes have been live for the last 7 days
iii) HelpScout Stats
In the past 7 days,
Email Conversations 4
Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 5
Emails Created 0
Resolved 4
Resolved on First Reply 50%
iv) Extras
Create Block Theme pluginPluginA 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 95 active issues and 15 pull requests in GitHub.
PluginPluginA 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 : 1119
Plugins rejected : 300
Plugins closed : 150
Plugins approved : 915
Plugin Queue Stats (current)
Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4611
(older than 7 days ago)** : 3723
(2026-09-28 – 2026-10-04) : 600
(new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 148
(pending; replied to)* : 4463
(pending; waiting on author)* : 3789
(pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 442
(pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 232
Help Scout Queue Stats
Total Conversations: 2456
New Conversations: 1496
Customers: 2057
Conversations per Day: 307
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1618
Replies Sent: 4575
Emails Created: 1248
* : 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
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 Learn WordPress DACH team finished its first German-language course cohort, “Starten mit WordPress” – seven weeks, seven live sessions, always two facilitators, a prepared curriculum for every single session, and answers in SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ in between. In the final session, every participant presented a website they had built themselves. Wonderful commitment, and a great model for all us to learn from.
🧳 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 Slack.
🏫 We are actively working on multi-language pluginPluginA 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.
⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in September
We held 5 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.
You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.
📋 Project Status
Project
Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review
9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation
44
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting
4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix
27
👀 Translations ready to review
26
📋 Project Update
Task Type
Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks
17
📖 Translated content
22
🖊️ Translation in progress
14
🪚 Workshops completed
0
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 GitHubGitHubGitHub 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. 🙌
