Happy New Year 2025 to all!
Here’s a summary of the WordPress Themes Team’s contributions in 2024, including Trac ticket activities and 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 statistics.
We sincerely appreciate everyone who participated in reviewing and creating themes, attended team meetings, identified bugs in the Theme Developer Handbook, and contributed in other ways to support the Themes Team.
Please note that these statistics are based on WordPress TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. custom query filters and some manual counts. If you notice any inaccuracies in the data, feel free to let us know, and we’ll verify them promptly.
Major Highlights
- Theme Review Team (#themereview) 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/ channel renamed to #themes. Proposal change post.
- Crossed 1000 block themes in the WordPress themes repository.
- The Block Theme focus handbook is ready. Making block theme development more easier.
- @automattic submitted the highest number of themes in the themes repository.
- @kafleg and @acosmin did the highest number of theme reviews.
General Overview
In the year 2024,
- 39671 tickets were opened (Both new and updated)
- 39796 tickets were closed
- 39046 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
- 1926 new Themes were submitted for review.
- 1566 new Themes were made live. (All Block, Hybrid, or Classic Themes)
- 360 new Themes submitted for review are closed as not approved.
- 37210 Theme updates were made live.
- 725 tickets were not approved.
- 25 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 39046 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
The percentage of new themes live is 81.3% whereas 18.7% were not-approved.
Monthwise data for 2024 (New Themes Submission, Live and Not Approved)
| Months/Statistics | Total | Live | Not Approved |
| January | 150 | 117 | 33 |
| February | 133 | 106 | 27 |
| March | 149 | 109 | 40 |
| April | 167 | 144 | 23 |
| May | 176 | 146 | 30 |
| June | 152 | 134 | 18 |
| July | 182 | 150 | 32 |
| August | 201 | 167 | 34 |
| September | 203 | 163 | 40 |
| October | 162 | 130 | 32 |
| November | 130 | 99 | 31 |
| December | 64 | 53 | 11 |
Bar graph showing the comparison data for 2024 (January – December)
Block Themes Statistics
- The number of Block Themes submissions: 646
- Block themes were made live: 549
- Block themes were not-approved: 96
- Currently under review: 18
Monthwise data for block themes 2024 (New Themes Submission, Live and Not Approved)
| Months/Statistics | Total | Live | Not Approved |
| January | 150 | 30 | 5 |
| February | 133 | 29 | 12 |
| March | 149 | 34 | 12 |
| April | 167 | 52 | 6 |
| May | 176 | 53 | 11 |
| June | 152 | 49 | 4 |
| July | 182 | 49 | 9 |
| August | 201 | 65 | 8 |
| September | 203 | 67 | 12 |
| October | 162 | 44 | 7 |
| November | 130 | 37 | 7 |
| December | 64 | 23 | 0 |
Bar graph showing the comparison data for block themes 2024 (January – December)
Top 10 Theme Authors
Here is the list of the top 10 authors by number of themes uploaded.
| Authors | Total Number of Themes Live | Number of Classic Themes Live | Number of Block Themes Live |
| @automattic | 98 | 0 | 98 |
| @cretathemes | 32 | 0 | 32 |
| @ascendoor | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| @vowelweb | 31 | 29 | 2 |
| @pewilliams | 30 | 0 | 30 |
| @themagnifico52 | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| @bosathemes | 29 | 29 | 0 |
| @classictemplate | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| @omegathemes | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| @themegrove | 26 | 0 | 26 |
Theme Reviewers
In the year 2024, we have 9 reviewers. Here is the list of the top 5 reviewers with the number of reviews (including not-approved).
| Theme Reviewer | Number of reviews (including not-approved) |
| @kafleg | 1192 |
| @acosmin | 513 |
| @fahimmurshed | 93 |
| @vowelweb | 89 |
| @bijayyadav | 25 |
| @rabieelkheir | 3 |
| @rinkuyadav999 | 3 |
| @shivashankerbhatta | 3 |
HelpScout Stats
In the year 2024,
| Email Conversations 670 | Messages Received 920 |
| Replies Sent 606 | Emails Created 38 |
| Resolved 425 | Resolved on First Reply 84% |
Blog Posts Statistics
- Total number of blog posts written: 45
- Total number of meeting agendas written: 16
- Total number of meeting notes written: 16
- Total number of weekly update post written: 41
Block Theme Handbook
Worked on the following chapters,
Huge props to @greenshady for his hard work to complete this handbook.
Thank you @acosmin for helping to collect statistics and data on 27th Dec.