Hosting and Themes Teams Announce Representatives for 2025

The Themes and Hosting teams has unveiled their representatives for 2025.

Themes Team Reps

In November, the Themes Team announced their search for community members familiar with WordPress theme development to serve as representatives for 2025. The call for nominations was open to everyone, allowing individuals to nominate themselves or others.

Interestingly, 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 is sponsored by Extend Themes as a part-time reviewer. He released his first WordPress theme in 2008, and since then, has played diverse roles—serving as a reviewer, developer, and team representative.

Ganga Kafle from Nepal is a full-time WordPress contributor sponsored by Rank Math. 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 is the founder/CEO of AF Themes. With over a decade of experience in WordPress, he focuses on themes, plugins, and community contributions.

In 2024, the Themes Team closed 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 Reps

After 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. Following an anonymous survey, the team announced the following representatives for 2025:

Zunaid Amin from Bangladesh is joining as a new Hosting Team Rep. He is a WordPress Engineer at Rocket.Net.

Lucas Radke from Germany is the Product Manager at WordPress VIP. He is continuing as Hosting Team Rep.