Source: Make WordPress: Themes

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Today we spoke about Contribution Days. For those of you that don’t know, each Tuesday at 17:00 UTC we now have a meeting in IRC #wordpress-themes. @samuelsidler had a few comments to start the conversation: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/09/09/weekly-meeting-notes/#comment-36060 Here are this week’s meeting notes: There are a number of pain points: actual process, and dependency on admin.…

As usual, the weekly meeting was held today. For those of you that don’t know, each Tuesday at 17:00 UTC we now have a meeting in IRC #wordpress-themes. Here are this week’s meeting notes: The topic this week was mentoring. We’ve had a great number of sign ups for both mentoring and those wanting mentoring.…

Anyone planning to attend WCSF this year from the theme review team, please read the post at https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2014/09/08/wcsf-tickets-and-stuff/ for information about WCSF ticket sales and the contributor days following the main conference. Please click the link and read that post *before* asking questions on this thread. 🙂 If you are planning to attend the team…

Welcome Tammie Lister (@karmatosed) to TRT Admins! Quick 411: Tammie is a theme reviewer since 2011 and Automattician since December of last year and has volunteered to help TRT by devoting 2-3 days a week, allowed by Automattic. She is also very active in other areas such as BuddyPress and WordCamps. I would like to…

In our recent meeting on IRC we discussed the idea of theme review mentors.  A simple and great way to learn from an experienced reviewer. We are looking for currently active reviewers that want to give back to the community, of course, and to teach the next generation of theme reviewer. So yes, we are looking…

On Tuesday we had our IRC meeting and it went well. Feel free to read the IRC logs if you would like to and catch up. The key points to take away from it are the criteria to meet. The admins are looking for: Experience Community involvement High quality reviews This role of key reviewer will…

As brought up from the mail list there are some that are interested in having a weekly meeting, or perhaps two. Much like some of the other contributing groups that have office hours I feel we can do the same. Our first meeting was August 15 and dealt with when would be a good time for…

With the release of WordPress 3.9, one of the changes to the Theme Review Guidelines is that Themes must use sane defaults. That means that Themes must not write default setting values to the database. For many Themes, this may seem like a major change; but it doesn’t have to be. This post will step…

There seems to be a great deal of confusion/misunderstanding regarding what constitutes proper copyright/license attribution for Themes, and several Themes are being approved without proper copyright/license attribution. There are four primary types of attribution: the Theme itself, derivative-work, incorporated code, and bundled resources. For works licensed under (or compatibly with) GPLGPL GPL is an acronym…