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This week’s meeting agenda This week we will be talking about 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…

Recently I mentioned that we need to have a standard changelog format. Not only does this benefit us as reviewers but it also benefits the users because it lets them know what has changed. This is important if a theme update has a security fix or it makes drastic changes. Users can then decide if…

Amazing results from the queue push day. We had a queue push day yesterday. It was really great to see so many reviewers dropping in and really making a difference. The big news is we got the admin review queue down to zero! It was really great to see as people pinged in channel the…

This is a quick notice for all theme authors using the TGM 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…

During yesterday’s team meeting, we made what we knew would be a controversial decision about theme settings. This post will go into more details about this decision and how we plan to move forward. Login to Reply

This week’s meeting: Important information regarding theme options and the 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. We had a meeting today. You can find the archive here. https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1429639190005379 A few things were decided: @melchoyce and…

Queue focus event A long time ago, we used to have as a team a day where people would get together on IRC and really tackle the queues. This was a great opportunity for people to really focus. We’re going to be bringing this back. This time, we want to really focus what people are…

Templates are a great way to make a theme unique and special. Making sure you are using the right one can tricky. This week let us focus on templates. Required: If used in theme, standard template files are required to be called using the correct template tag: File Template tag header.php get_header() footer.php get_footer() sidebar.php get_sidebar()…

Weekly meeting agenda This week we’ve got our usual meeting at 18:00 UTC Tuesday (tomorrow) in #themereview. Our topic this week is: Code examples. What can we do to make reviewing easier and clearer with regards to documentation? @jcastaneda hopefully you can make it as be great to have you update us as to what…

Theme review team weekly notes The logs are here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1428429623002869 We had a really short meeting as there was no topic. This is an issue we’ve had previously and was solved by getting topics. Lets do that again. I’m going to leave the comments here for people to add topics and issues they’d like to…