Themes team meeting notes for March 11, 2025


The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: March 11, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 688 tickets were opened
  • 702 tickets were closed
    • 682 tickets were made live.
      • 39 new Themes were made live.
      • 643 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 20 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.

Number of reviewers: 7 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @bijayyadav, @ammarsaif, @kristynabennett)

Block themes status:

  • 17 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 10 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

More information on weekly updates is here.

This week, 150+ themes were suspended, as they were not updated and had security issues. And also with affiliate spam links.

We request everyone to update your theme according to the current theme guidelines to avoid suspending the themes.

2. Open Floor

@ohia shared about WordCamp Madrid Contributor Day. She said, “On Friday at WCMAD I led the themes table. We had 6 new people sign on to the #themes channel, and we translated the orally to Spanish the guidelines and read about the team. Then we uploaded a theme in playground and we reviewed it for theme requirements but didn’t finish”.

She added, “It made me realize that I need to do this on my own a few times so I can be a better leader at the tables but it was a good time and everyone learned something amidst the chaos of a very loud CD”.

During the open floor, @kafleg shared about the WordPress 6.7 change, per @joyously comment in the meeting agenda post. With the WordPress. 6.7 change, that could affect themes that use the accordion markup in the Customizer theme page:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63042

#meeting-notes, #themes-team