KafleG 2:55 am on January 7, 2026
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Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2026

A few weeks ago, we invited community members who were interested in serving as team representatives to submit nominations. Individuals were welcome to nominate themselves or recommend someone they felt would be a great fit for the role.

The post received many nomination comments, with several highlighting individuals who will serve as the 2025 team representatives. After discussions with both past and current team reps, we finalized the team representatives for 2026. If anyone is interested in taking ownership of a specific area, please reach out in the channel to start a conversation.

Additional support is always appreciated—the more help the representatives receive, the more they are able to accomplish.

Please join me in congratulating them and wishing them every success in their upcoming term.

  1. Bijay Yadav (@bijayyadav)
  2. Fahim Murshed (@fahimmurshed)
  3. Justin Tadlock (@greenshady)

Bijay Yadav

Bijay Yadav is a WordPress theme developer from Kathmandu, Nepal, sponsored by Elementor to contribute full-time to the WordPress Themes team.

He has been an active member of the WordPress community since 2013, participating in WordCamps as a speaker and contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. lead, and contributing across coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., themes, plugins, translations, and photos.

His contributions include closing numerous themes tickets and maintaining WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ themes such as CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. Custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., Clean Notebook, and Geum.

You can reach him directly via WordPress Slack; the username is bijayyadav.

Fahim Murshed

Fahim Murshed is a dedicated WordPress Product Support Engineer and active community contributor from Barishal, Bangladesh.

He is the Lead Organizer of the Barishal WordPress MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. and has been deeply involved in the WordPress ecosystem, contributing to support, themes, core, and more, as well as participating in and organizing WordCamps and meetups.

His commitment to helping others and supporting open-source WordPress initiatives is a key part of his work and community engagement.

You can reach him directly via 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/.. His Slack username is FahimMurshed.

Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock is a long-time WordPress contributor and developer from Alabama who has been involved with the project since 2005.

Automattic sponsors him to contribute full-time to Documentation, Support, and Themes, and has a broad history of contributions across core, themes, plugins, and more.

Justin will focus more on the theme handbook and also be involved in making decisions and keeping things moving along.

You can find him on WordPress Slack via his username, greenshady.

Thank you for taking on the responsibilities and keeping the tasks and team moving well.

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Jonathan Desrosiers 9:43 pm on December 18, 2025
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KafleG 10:11 am on November 4, 2025
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Nominations Call for the themes team representatives: 2026 Edition

The Themes team is seeking representatives for the year 2026. It’s time to submit your nominations! Please leave a comment in the section below to nominate a team member. Based on the nominations, two or three representatives will be selected for the Themes team.

Currently, @acosmin, @shivashankerbhatta, and me (@kafleg) are the team representatives. 

What are Team Reps?

Team representatives are responsible for acting as the primary communicators on behalf of their team.

In the WordPress open-source project, each team typically has one or two representatives (reps).

Read here to learn more about team reps.

Responsibilities:

  • They represent the team
  • Communication with other teams
  • Post weekly updates
  • Mentor theme reviewers 
  • Transfer themes, suspend or delist themes (if necessary)
  • Conduct team meetings, write meeting agendas, and meeting notes 
  • Guide theme authors and reply to their questions 
  • Regularly check themes team email and follow-up etc. 
  • Maintain 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
  • Review Patterns and set live or delist them, etc.

What are the qualifications?

A representative should be an active member of the WordPress Community. Someone reliable and trusted, familiar with WordPress theme development.

How to nominate someone? 

The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 01, 2025.

Nomination text sample: “I would like to nominate @nominee_wp_username”. Or you can also nominate yourself. You can write “I would like to nominate myself”. 

If you get nominated but if you are not ready for the reps, you can decline it as well.

How Will the Election Work?

If we receive more nominations and are unable to reach a consensus on the representatives, we will hold a vote, similar to an election. If necessary, we will publish a separate post with detailed information about the voting process.

Once the results are in, the new team representative(s) will be announced in a follow-up blog post.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below. Happy Nominating!

#themes-team

Bijay Yadav 5:14 am on September 24, 2025
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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

Bijay Yadav 5:17 am on September 23, 2025
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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