The Themes and Hosting teams have announced their representatives for 2025.

Themes Team Representatives

In November, the Themes Team launched a search for community members familiar with WordPress theme development to serve as representatives for 2025. The nomination process was open to all, allowing individuals to nominate themselves or others.

Notably, several comments on the announcement post suggested re-nominating the 2024 representatives. After consulting with current and former team representatives, the Themes Team decided to retain the existing team reps for another term:

• Alexandru Cosmin from Romania, sponsored by Extend Themes as a part-time reviewer, will continue to serve. He released his first WordPress theme in 2008 and has since held diverse roles, including reviewer, developer, and team representative.
• Ganga Kafle from Nepal, a full-time WordPress contributor sponsored by Rank Math, will also continue. Active in the community since 2012, he is an organizer for WordCamp Asia 2025 and a moderator for WordPress-related podcasts like Go With WP.
• Shiva Shanker Bhatta from Nepal, the founder/CEO of AF Themes, will continue as well. With over a decade of experience in WordPress, he focuses on themes, plugins, and community contributions.

In 2024, the Themes Team resolved a total of 39,796 tickets, with Alexandru Cosmin, Ganga Kafle, and Shiva Shanker Bhatta collectively handling 1,708 reviews. Ganga Kafle and Alexandru Cosmin were the top reviewers last year.

Hosting Team Representatives

Following a Call for Nominations, four candidates were proposed for the Hosting Team Rep positions: Matthias Pfefferle, Javier Casares, Zunaid Amin, and Lucas Radke. However, Matthias and Javier declined the opportunity. After an anonymous survey, the team announced the following representatives for 2025:

• Zunaid Amin from Bangladesh, a WordPress Engineer at Rocket.Net, is joining as a new Hosting Team Rep.
• Lucas Radke from Germany, the Product Manager at WordPress VIP, will continue as Hosting Team Rep.