KafleG 10:11 am on November 4, 2025
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Nominations Call for the themes team representatives: 2026 Edition

The Themes team is seeking representatives for the year 2026. It’s time to submit your nominations! Please leave a comment in the section below to nominate a team member. Based on the nominations, two or three representatives will be selected for the Themes team.

Currently, @acosmin, @shivashankerbhatta, and me (@kafleg) are the team representatives. 

What are Team Reps?

Team representatives are responsible for acting as the primary communicators on behalf of their team.

In the WordPress open-source project, each team typically has one or two representatives (reps).

Read here to learn more about team reps.

Responsibilities:

  • They represent the team
  • Communication with other teams
  • Post weekly updates
  • Mentor theme reviewers 
  • Transfer themes, suspend or delist themes (if necessary)
  • Conduct team meetings, write meeting agendas, and meeting notes 
  • Guide theme authors and reply to their questions 
  • Regularly check themes team email and follow-up etc. 
  • Maintain Theme Check 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
  • Review Patterns and set live or delist them, etc.

What are the qualifications?

A representative should be an active member of the WordPress Community. Someone reliable and trusted, familiar with WordPress theme development.

How to nominate someone? 

The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 01, 2025.

Nomination text sample: “I would like to nominate @nominee_wp_username”. Or you can also nominate yourself. You can write “I would like to nominate myself”. 

If you get nominated but if you are not ready for the reps, you can decline it as well.

How Will the Election Work?

If we receive more nominations and are unable to reach a consensus on the representatives, we will hold a vote, similar to an election. If necessary, we will publish a separate post with detailed information about the voting process.

Once the results are in, the new team representative(s) will be announced in a follow-up blog post.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below. Happy Nominating!

#themes-team

Bijay Yadav 5:14 am on September 24, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for September 23, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 865 tickets were opened
  • 866 tickets were closed
    • 852 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 816 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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.

In the last 7 days, 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. themes stats:

  • 13 Block themes are currently being reviewed.
  • 13 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady asked if anyone has topics they’d like to see covered on the Dev Blog and encouraged sharing theming ideas either on GitHub Discussions or directly with him.

Also, @aslamnaik asked if there are different requirements for reviewing block themes over the regular classic themes, and @greenshady shared a link to the theme handbook in response.

Since there were few attendees and no more agendas to discuss on the open floor, @bijayyadav adjourned the meeting.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Bijay Yadav 5:17 am on September 23, 2025
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Themes Team Meeting Agendas for September 23, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 23 September.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Bijay Yadav 3:56 am on September 11, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for September 9, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 1348 tickets were opened
  • 1369 tickets were closed
    • 1353 tickets were made live.
      • 50 new Themes were made live.
      • 1303 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 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.

In the last 7 days, 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. themes stats:

  • 12 Block themes are currently being reviewed.
  • 19 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days.

3. Open Floor

Since there were few attendees and no items to discuss on the open floor, @bijayyadav adjourned the meeting.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Bijay Yadav 1:43 am on September 9, 2025
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Themes Team Meeting Agendas for September 9, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 9 September.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team