Themes Team Meeting Agendas for January 27, 2026

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, the second Tuesday meeting was cancelled, and this meeting on 27 January will be the first meeting of the month.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Updates to the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-Ready Guidelines
  • AI-generated Images in Themes
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Themes team meeting notes for September 23, 2025

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,

  • 865 tickets were opened
  • 866 tickets were closed
    • 852 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 816 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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, 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. themes stats:

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

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady asked if anyone has topics they’d like to see covered on the Dev Blog and encouraged sharing theming ideas either on GitHub Discussions or directly with him.

Also, @aslamnaik asked if there are different requirements for reviewing block themes over the regular classic themes, and @greenshady shared a link to the theme handbook in response.

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

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Agendas for September 23, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 23 September.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Themes team meeting notes for September 9, 2025

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,

  • 1348 tickets were opened
  • 1369 tickets were closed
    • 1353 tickets were made live.
      • 50 new Themes were made live.
      • 1303 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more was approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 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, 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. themes stats:

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

3. Open Floor

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

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Agendas for September 9, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 9 September.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team