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I just posted a couple things to the Community team p2 that could benefit from getting feedback from developers in the community: Improving WordCamp.org: Notes from the 2014 Community Summit Improving WordCamp.org: User Experience of the CSS Editor #customizing-themes, #jetpack-css-editor, #wordcamp-orgLogin to Reply

Late last week saw the launch of the reimplemented Theme Directory, complete with a new theme. This week brings with it another improvement to 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…

Today, the stats reflected on wordpress.org/about/stats changed, dramatically. I’d like to explain why. First, so they’re documented here, the numbers: WordPress versions Version Before After 3.0 16.06% 2.27% −13.80% 3.1 1.21% 1.25% +0.04% 3.2 1.38% 1.35% −0.03% 3.3 4.11% 2.96% −1.15% 3.4 4.47% 3.24% −1.24% 3.5 14.60% 7.21% −7.38% 3.6 6.95% 3.72% −3.23% 3.7 4.34% 2.51%…

After a bit of a longer two-day rollout than planned, the new theme directory is now live and functional. If you find bugs (and we’ve already found a few), then please report them on the meta.tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. using the Theme…

Tomorrow we’re going live with the new Directory! We’ll start going through the checklist . Disable uploads on bbpressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org themes. (@Otto42) Disable themes.tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. sync…

Last week I fixed most of the fixable tickets for the Theme Directory, switched to using WP_Query instead of the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. for server-side rendering of themes, updated the WordPress-based…

The two major parts of my week were fixing bug reports that came in after my post on make/themes, and getting started with adopting @melchoyce‘s modal design (Modal == modal + single). With the exception of reviews and support, I tried to stick as close as possible to the mockup. While I’m obviously not done…

A very busy week with lots of improvements! These are some previously mentioned TODOs that I was able to scratch off the list: Rewrote the Theme APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.’s update endpoint…

It’s been two weeks since my last update on the theme directory. I had a chance to get my downloader and Themes APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. code reviewed by @dd32, but between…

This week I’ve been working with @obenland to mock up improvements to the new theme directory, focusing primarily on the single theme view. (Note: you’ll want to zoom out to 50%) Layout-wise, the mockups are pretty similar to this modal — sans-tabs (currently) — but use the overall style of the existing theme browser modal.…