Themes team meeting notes for August 11, 2026 – Make WordPress Themes

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,

• 1221 tickets were opened
• 1385 tickets were closed
  • 1363 tickets were made live.
    • 49 new Themes were made live.
    • 1314 Theme updates were made live.
    • 2 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 43 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 22 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, block 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:

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

2. Open Floor

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

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