Bijay Yadav 4:44 am on March 25, 2026
Tags: themes ( 524 ), weekly updates ( 219 )

Themes team update March 25, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

12 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
99 tickets are assigned.
- 3 ticket is older than 4 weeks
- 32 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 54 tickets are older than 1 week
- 86 tickets are older than 3 days
11 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1200 tickets were opened
1220 tickets were closed
- 1173 tickets were made live.
  - 34 new Themes were made live.
  - 1139 Theme updates were made live.
  - 10 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 47 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, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @hchouhan, @vowelweb , @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir, @shivashankerbhatta, @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

33 Block themes are currently being reviewed
11 Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 8	Messages Received 15
Replies Sent 5	Emails Created 0
Resolved 5	Resolved on First Reply 40%

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 68 active issues and 7 pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 14 PRs and 39 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Nikunj Hatkar 3:25 pm on March 24, 2026
Tags: test ( 176 )

Test Team Update: 24 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 March 10, 2026):

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

Need to reproduce issue: 137 (change: -4)
Need patch testing: 104 (change: 0)

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: 0)
Need patch testing: 0 (change: -1)

New/Changed two weeks:

Core

Need to reproduce issue: 0 (change: 0)
Need patch testing: 12 (change: +2)

Gutenberg

Need to reproduce issue: 2 (change: -2)
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

Francisco Torres 7:32 pm on March 23, 2026
Tags: plugins ( 582 )

Plugins Team: 23 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 : 542
Plugins rejected : 139
Plugins closed : 59
Plugins approved : 257

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4721
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3982
- (2026-03-16 – 2026-03-22) : 558
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 794
- (pending; replied to)* : 3927
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3642
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 254
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 31

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 1308
New Conversations: 676
Customers: 1230
Conversations per Day: 163
Busiest Day: Thursday
Messages Received: 684
Replies Sent: 2160
Emails Created: 569

* : 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

Bijay Yadav 4:41 am on March 18, 2026
Tags: themes ( 524 ), weekly updates ( 219 )

Themes team update March 18, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

24 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
99 tickets are assigned.
- 12 ticket is older than 4 weeks
- 41 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 72 tickets are older than 1 week
- 98 tickets are older than 3 days
6 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1185 tickets were opened
1189 tickets were closed
- 1167 tickets were made live.
  - 35 new Themes were made live.
  - 1132 Theme updates were made live.
  - 5 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 21 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: 13 (@acosmin, @ammarsaif, @bijayyadav, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @hchouhan, @vowelweb , @mhamal, @productiveminds, @rabieelkheir, @wpinterface, @meerab123, @tskk)