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We are going to have an extra meeting…
We are going to have an extra meeting to talk Global theme reviewing on Thursday 27th 10:00 UTC in #themereview on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Our suggested agenda is: Event promotion. Country event reporting. Contribution pack and work flows. I…
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This week’s meeting Today we had our weekly…
This week’s meeting: Today we had our weekly meeting. You can find the archive here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1416938377003366 Housekeeping: There are some good posts to catch up on this make.blog: Understanding the APIs Related to Theme Options Design challenge weekend Handbook version one refresh goes live tomorrow. This focuses on guidelines (required, recommended) and restructuring. We need…
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Running a Theme Review Session
Information for contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ organizers When…
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Getting Started at a Contributor Day
Welcome to the Themes Team This section is intended to guide you through different ways that you can contribute to the Themes Team and contribute to making WordPress themes better. If you need any help at any time you can always ask the contribution day lead or organizer and you always find people to ask…
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Understanding the APIs Related to Theme Options
There seems to be a great deal of confusion regarding the various APIs involved with Theme options, especially regarding the interactions among those APIs. This confusion is obvious in discussions involving the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your…
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Design challenge weekend
We are going to hold a Design Challenge Weekend December 13th – 14th. A what? This weekend is aimed at inspiring designers and developers. We have a few goals: Raise the design standard of the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download…
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Mentoring update
We’ve been running the mentoring program for a few months now and I thought it would be a good time to post an update. We started with 6 mentors: me, @jcastaneda, @catchthemes, @grapplerulrich, @gpriday, @rohitink. Each of these reviewers has over 13 mentees, some have more because of contribution days. As of this weekend we…
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Agenda for this week’s meeting We are having…
Agenda for this week’s meeting: We are having our usual weekly meeting on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in #themereview on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. You can find more about Slack here: chat.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created…
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Cool things are happening with the theme repository…
Cool things are happening with the theme repository! I think it’s worth cross posting from the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. blog what @obenland wrote here: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2014/11/20/theme-repository-theme/. Changes…
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Now we doing_it_right an update to doing_it_wrong
Our doing_it_wrong theme is finally up on github and needs your attention! I’ve compiled a few things that were mentioned in our previous request of things to use for our theme. Below are some of the things you will find erroneous with the theme. Licensing Scripts and styles Documentation Sanitation, validation, escaping of inputs and outputs…