-
·
Get involved
Are you looking to join the Themes Team? Please see the About page to learn more about the team, what the team does, how to reach the team, and more. Are you interested in seeing how you can run a contribution session related to themes? Great, you’ve come to the right place! In this section…
-
·
Agenda for this week’s meeting This week we’re…
Agenda for this week’s meeting This week we’re meeting on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in 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/ #themereview. Housekeeping: Language meeting, Twenty Fifteen reminder doing_it_wrong theme update from @jcastaneda Handbook update Design week challenge. We briefly talked about…
-
·
Lets talk about making the theme review team easier to participate in for other languages
We already are lucky enough to have a wide range of countries represented as Theme Reviewers. This benefits us as a team and going forward helps us especially with opening up the language themes are in. It’s a win-win situation. However, there are certain difficulties with someone not having English as their first language. As…
-
·
What’s In a Name?
To paraphrase a famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “a theme by any other name would look as sweet” … and in the same manner that one can see “code is poetry”, a good theme will be known by its quality more so than by its name. The name should just be a point…
-
·
Theme Check Plugin
Information on this page may be out of date. The following are all the checks that the Theme Check plugin performs. Themes have to pass the Theme Check plugin without errors before they can be included in the theme directory. You can get the plugin from the plugin directory or you can get the developer…
-
·
Resources
Keyboard navigation Keyboard navigation support in the theme accessibility-ready guidelines Keyboard navigation testing in the Accessibility Team’s documentation site Keyboard accessibility by WebAIM Reviewing A Guide to Reviewing Themes for the WordPress Theme Repository by Chip Bennett Preliminary Theme Review Process by Emil Uzelac Prefix all the things by Justin Tadlock Most Common Admin Review Issues…
-
·
As of today we have streamlined our trac…
As of today we have streamlined our tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. queues. We now only have 2. Updates: any theme already in the repo that has an update. New: any theme that is not in the repo. These can all be found…
-
·
Recommended
Comments Themes are recommended to support comments, including nested comments and comment navigation.If comments are not supported, the team recommends that this is documented as a limitation, in the theme readme file. Theme support The following theme support is recommended for classic themes add_theme_support( “custom-header”, $args ) add_theme_support( “custom-background”, $args ) add_theme_support( “custom-logo”, $args )…
-
·
Required
A theme must meet all of the following requirements to be included in the WordPress.org Theme Directory. Themes that have 3 or more distinct issues may be closed as not-approved. However, theme authors may resubmit the theme once they’ve corrected the issues. 1. Licensing & copyright Themes must be compatible with the GNU General Public…
-
·
Review Process
Theme Review Process Every theme that is uploaded for inclusion in the WordPress.org theme directory goes through this process: A theme gets uploaded. A theme goes to the new theme queue. A theme gets allocated a theme reviewer. The reviewer does a review by checking the required items and noting any recommendations. Once the review…