A Year in Themes Team – 2023


Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s some data for 2023 about the WordPress themes team contribution on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets as well as 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.

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 filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. 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.
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
  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Concepts
  • Global Settings and Styles (theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.)
  • Templates
  • Features

Extras

  • 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. 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.

#themes-team, #year2023