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Design challenge weekend extra learning session
Along with the other sessions we’re also going to have one by Justin Tadlock (@greenshady) titled “Intro to child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ dev”. “Learn…
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Theme review team weekly notes The logs are…
Theme review team weekly notes The logs are here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1418147884000451 Notes: We’ll have an article on the use of ABSPATH to clarify. Using make.blog as education resource is important. @chipbennett opened a GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers.…
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Design challenge weekend learning sessions
We’re going to do some sessions in the lead up to the design challenge weekend. These will be done and then recorded to post on WordPress.tv. Each session will be no longer than an hour with a Q&A session. So, what are they going to be? First one is: Mel Choyce (@melchoyce) is going to be talk on…
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This week’s agenda is going to be firming…
This week’s agenda is going to be firming up some requirements and recommendations. We’ll meet at 18:00 UTC Tuesday in #themereview on Slack. Find out more about joining Slack here: https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ Both of these requirements are not a matter of bringing new things in, it’s a matter of tidying up our language and being clear…
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Theme review team weekly notes This week we…
Theme review team weekly notes This week we met to discuss hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both…
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This week’s meeting will be at 18:00 UTC…
This week’s meeting will be at 18:00 UTC in #themereview tomorrow (Tuesday) As we talked about last week the topic this week will be ‘HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in…
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Global group meeting We had a meeting today…
Global group meeting We had a meeting today about theme reviews globally. Archive: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1417082447003953 Event promotion. Promoting events as they come up. Includes WordCamps, Contribution Days and causal get togethers for reviewing. Country event reporting. This is being done through their usual channels per country. Contribution pack. This will have a guide to getting started,…
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Theme Mods API or Settings API?
A few days ago, Chip Bennett wrote a good tutorial on the APIs related to theme options and broke down how those APIs can/should be used depending on the context. If anyone can really go in depth with theme options, it’s Chip. I’m hoping we see more from him on theme options in the future.…
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Handbook refresh.
The first version of the refresh is now up and live under Handbook. The main changes in this first version are: Structure Menu and navigation Requirements and Recommendations We also now have a new main menu for the team: About Handbook Review TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests…
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Standards vs. Innovation
One of the reasons I originally got involved with the Theme Review Team was to add a little balance to what I and many other theme authors felt like were overly strict guidelines dealing with how themes should be coded. We needed more voices from experienced people doing this theme thing. Standardization is almost always…