Ahmed Kabir Chaion 10:19 am on November 19, 2025
Tags: polyglots ( 37 ), updates ( 13 ), week in review ( 21 ), weekly updates ( 199 )

Polyglots Week in Review: November 18, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 18, 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 November 18, 2025)

Here’s a snapshot of activity over the past week (with differences compared to November 11, 2025 in brackets):

🌐 Locale & Release Stats

Total Locales: 208
Releases:
- Up to date: 72 (-1)
- Behind by minor versions: 2 (+1)
- Behind by one major version: 0 (±0)
- 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: 7 (-37)
95–99% Translated: 48 (+25)
90–94% Translated: 15 (+9)
50–89% Translated: 41 (+2)
0–49% Translated: 87 (+1)
Language Packs Generated: 131 (±0)
No Project: 7 (±0)

🙋 Requests

Unresolved Editor Requests: 20 / 7,580 total (+8)
Unresolved Locale Requests: 37 / 204 total (±0)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Translators

General Translation Editors (GTEs): 803 (±0)
Project Translation Editors (PTEs): 6,500 (+13)
Translation Contributors: 80,160 (+99)

🗣 Site Language Adoption

56.392% (-0.022%) 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

November 19, 2025 at 13:00 GMT
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 GMT
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 10:17 am on November 18, 2025
Tags: themes ( 506 ), weekly updates ( 199 )

Themes team update November 18, 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.
- 5 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 12 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 25 tickets are older than 1 week
- 46 tickets are older than 3 days
2 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

1311 tickets were opened
1331 tickets were closed
- 1306 tickets were made live.
  - 46 new Themes were made live.
  - 1260 Theme updates were made live.
  - 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 25 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)

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

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

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 23	Messages Received 28
Replies Sent 11	Emails Created 1
Resolved 11	Resolved on First Reply 64%

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 6 Pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 16 PRs and 44 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 3:41 pm on November 17, 2025
Tags: plugins ( 567 )

Plugins Team: 17 Nov 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 : 296
Plugins rejected : 105
Plugins closed : 62
Plugins approved : 154

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4107
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3746
- (2025-11-10 – 2025-11-16) : 284
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 316
- (pending; replied to)* : 3791
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3525
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 212
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 54

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 1011
New Conversations: 556
Customers: 925
Conversations per Day: 126
Busiest Day: Sunday
Messages Received: 510
Replies Sent: 1563
Emails Created: 466

* : 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

Jb Audras 5:05 pm on November 15, 2025
Tags: core ( 66 )

A Month in Core – October 2025

Here’s some aggregate data for October 2025 about WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribution on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..

Please note:

These data only include code contributions to WordPress codebase, not contributions on 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/ repositories such as 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/ (but it still include Gutenberg package merges and related backports).
The committers data only includes commits to trunk. Branch backports are not taken into account for now.
The raw data for this post are available on this public spreadsheet (opens in a new tab). You might find it easier to read.
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Releases of the month

In October 2025, WP 6.9 entered its betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. cycle.

General Trac overview

Ticket numbers are based on the Trac timeline for the period above.

In October 2025, the WordPress Core team shipped 223 commits (+34 compared to last month). 119 tickets were opened (-37), 198 tickets were closed (+16), and 24 were reopened (+10).

This month, 244 people contributed to WordPress source code using Trac (+83 compared to last month!), and 55 people (+20!) made their very first contribution to WordPress Core ♥️

Components activity

How did October’s commits break out by Core Component?

The most prolific components were:

Component	Count	%
Bundled Themes	27	14%
Editor	27	14%
Coding Standards	14	7%
General	14	7%
Script Loader	11	6%
Build/Test Tools	10	5%
REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.	8	4%
Networks and Sites	8	4%
Users	7	4%
Abilities APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.	6	3%
HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. API	6	3%
Docs	5	3%
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. Bindings	5	3%
Interactivity API	4	2%
Posts, Post Types	4	2%
Media	4	2%
Themes	4	2%

October 2025 Core commits distribution across WordPress Core components

Contributors data retrieved from WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles

The data below comes from matching contributors’ usernames, as mentioned in Trac props, with their profiles on WordPress.org.

One caveat: this ignores usernames that did not match a profile on dotorg, plus any that had blank or unusable country/company information (“The Universe”, “Unicorn land” or “Planes, Trains, and Busses” are not known countries 🙂).

Countries stats

In October, people from at least 40 countries contributed to WordPress Core (only 27 on September!).

The next graphs show the number of props received by country and the number of contributors from each country. The top15 countries, based on the number of props received, are these (evolution since last month is provided between parenthesis):

Country	Contributions	Contributors
USA	377	39
India	134	40
Australia	63	7
Spain	61	6
Russia	44	2
Canada	42	10
UK	42	11
Italy	24	3
Philippines	19	2
Japan	19	2
Germany	18	8
Switzerland	17	1
France	17	6
Poland	16	3
Bangladesh	13	11

October 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by country.
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Five for the Future related stats

In October, people from at least 71 different companies/organizations contributed to WordPress Core.

The next graphs show the number of props received by organization and the number of contributors from each organization. The top 10 organizations, based on the number of props received, are these:

Organization	Contributions	Contributors
Automattic	203	40
WP Engine	120	3
Accessible WD	59	1
Yoast	53	3
Google	38	3
10up	38	8
rtCamp	31	18
DevriX	30	3
Human Made	30	5
Bluehost	27	1

October 2025 Core contributions (props and people) by organization.
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What did October hold for Core Committers?

26 Core Committers committed code to the trunk branch in WordPress SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. repository this month (+12 compared to previous month).

Of the 192 commits to the trunk branch (+107 compared to the previous month), 46 (24%) were made by people working at Automattic, 43 (22%) from employees of WP Engine, and 29 (15%) by people working at Yoast.

Account	Full Name	Commits	Company	Country	Member since	%
westonruter	Weston Ruter	43	WP Engine	United States of America	2007	22%
joedolson	Joe Dolson	29	Accessible WD	United States of America	2008	15%
sergeybiryukov	Sergey Biryukov	29	Yoast	Russia	2007	15%
dmsnell	Dennis Snell	9	Automattic	United States of America	2014	5%
johnjamesjacoby	John James Jacoby	7	Awesome Motive	United States of America	2008	4%
ellatrix	Ella Van Durpe	7	Automattic		2013	4%
peterwilsoncc	Peter Wilson	7	10up	Australia	2008	4%
jorbin	Aaron Jorbin	7			2009	4%
cbravobernal	Carlos Bravo	7	Automattic	Spain	2017	4%
desrosj	Jonathan Desrosiers	5	Bluehost	United States of America	2009	3%
johnbillion	John Blackbourn	5	Human Made	United Kingdom	2005	3%
gziolo	Greg Ziółkowski	5	Automattic	Poland	2016	3%
ramonopoly	ramonopoly	5	Automattic	Australia	2017	3%
luisherranz		4	Automattic	Spain	2015	2%
davidbaumwald	David Baumwald	3	Dream Encore	United States of America	2016	2%
spacedmonkey	Jonny Harris	3	Spacedmonkey	United Kingdom	2009	2%
swissspidy	Pascal Birchler	3	Google	Switzerland	2008	2%
andrewserong	Andrew Serong	3	Automattic	Australia	2016	2%
adamsilverstein	Adam Silverstein	2	Google	United States of America	2012	1%
scruffian	Ben Dwyer	2	Automattic	United Kingdom	2007	1%
bernhard-reiter	Bernhard Reiter	2	Automattic		2008	1%
wildworks	Aki Hamano	1		Japan	2017	1%
jorgefilipecosta	Jorge Costa	1	Automattic	Portugal	2017	1%
mamaduka	George Mamadashvili	1	GoDaddy	Georgia	2009	1%
kadamwhite	K. Adam White	1	Human Made	Japan	2010	1%
jonsurrell	Jon Surrell	1	Automattic	Spain	2011	1%

#core

Ahmed Kabir Chaion 2:08 am on November 12, 2025
Tags: polyglots ( 37 ), updates ( 13 ), week in review ( 21 ), weekly updates ( 199 )

Polyglots Week in Review: November 11, 2025

Hello Polyglots! 👋 Welcome to a Polyglots Week in Review (November 11, 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.