Happy New Year everyone!
Here’s some data for 2023 about the WordPress themes team contribution on Trac tickets as well as block theme stats.
We would like to thank everyone who got involved in reviewing themes and creating themes. We also like to thank those who attended the themes team meeting, helped to find the bug in the themes developer handbook, and did other related things for the themes team.
Please note that the stats are based on WordPress trac custom query filter and some manual counts. If you find any stats are invalid, let us know, and we’ll check them again.
General Overview
In the year 2023,
- 28959 tickets were opened (Both new and updated)
- 29032 tickets were closed
- 28499 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
- 1413 new Themes were made live. (All Block, Hybrid, or Classic Themes)
- 27086 Theme updates were made live.
- 525 tickets were not approved.
- 8 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 28499 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
| Months/Statistics | Total | Live | Not Approved |
| January | 136 | 109 | 27 |
| February | 98 | 70 | 28 |
| March | 141 | 112 | 29 |
| April | 112 | 90 | 22 |
| May | 123 | 100 | 23 |
| June | 153 | 123 | 30 |
| July | 133 | 106 | 27 |
| August | 155 | 124 | 31 |
| September | 133 | 111 | 22 |
| October | 119 | 90 | 29 |
| November | 129 | 97 | 32 |
| December | 80 | 68 | 12 |
Block Themes Statistics
- The number of Block Themes submissions: 364
- Block themes were made live: 300
- Block themes were not-approved: 53
- Currently under review: 11
| Months | Block Themes Live Number |
| January | 20 |
| February | 15 |
| March | 21 |
| April | 26 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 23 |
| July | 22 |
| August | 35 |
| September | 35 |
| October | 29 |
| November | 30 |
| December | 23 |
Block Theme Authors
Here is the list of top 10 authors by number of block themes uploaded.
| Authors | Number of Block Themes Uploaded |
| codeyatri | 18 |
| wpradiant | 17 |
| cretathemes | 16 |
| wowsthemes | 15 |
| automattic | 14 |
| gracethemes | 14 |
| eaglethemes | 12 |
| cozythemes | 11 |
| catchthemes | 10 |
| fly2sky | 9 |
Theme Reviewers
In the year 2023, we have 15 reviewers. Here is the list of the top 10 reviewers with the number of reviews (including not-approved).
| Theme Reviewer | Number of reviews (including not-approved) |
| kafleg | 800 |
| acosmin | 538 |
| fahimmurshed | 69 |
| vowelweb | 43 |
| ShresthaRaaz | 38 |
| bijayyadav | 11 |
| aslamnaik | 3 |
| rajinsharwar | 2 |
The rest of them have only 1 review per reviewer.
HelpScout Stats
In the year 2024,
| Email Conversations 487 | Messages Received 650 |
| Replies Sent 517 | Emails Created 18 |
| Resolved 414 | Resolved on First Reply 85% |
Block-focused Theme Handbook chapters
In this year 2023, we also worked on writing the theme handbook for the block theme.
- Getting Started
- Core Concepts
- Global Settings and Styles (theme.json)
- Templates
- Features
Extras
- Theme Check plugin updated: 3
- Posts published in a weekly updates site: 42
- Total meetings hosted and notes written: 15
- Total agenda notes written: 19
- Total blog posts published on the Make Themes site: 52
Thank you @acosmin for helping to collect statistics and data on 26th Dec.