Source: Make WordPress: Themes

Congratulations to @rohitink, @ZGani, and @alex27; you three have completed the most new Theme approvals for January! (This marks the third time in a row that these three have won the incentive.) Please post your Featured Theme selections in the comments, with a link to the Theme’s WPORG Theme Directory listing. The Themes that will be…

Several developers are hooking into the awesome Theme 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. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share…

The time has come again for WordPress community contributor groups to select new Team Reps. The Theme Review Team is looking for someone not a member of the admin group to take on this role. What is a Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the…

Congratulations to @rohitink, @ZGani, and @alex27; you three have completed the most new Theme approvals for mid-November through December! Please post your Featured Theme selections in the comments, with a link to the Theme’s WPORG Theme Directory listing. The Themes that will be cycled out are: Corpo, Hueman, and Sixteen. A total of 61 new Themes were  approved by…

Cross-posting to multiple teams, so apologies if you’ve seen this on another Make site already.* There are a few days left to submit proposals to OSCON. It would be great to see the sessions there that are about WordPress actually being presented by people involved in the project, so I’d like to encourage/urge/beg some of…

Welcome Justin Tadlock (@greenshady) to the Theme Review Team admins! Justin has been involved with the Theme Review Team for three years, and has volunteered to help with the final audits of New Themes that have been approved, and we’re sure he’ll be a great asset to the team. I would also like to take…

Congratulations to @rohitink, @ZGani, and @alex27; you three have completed the most new Theme approvals for October through mid-November! Please post your Featured Theme selections in the comments, with a link to the Theme’s WPORG Theme Directory listing. The Themes that will be cycled out are: Destro, Iconic One, and StrapVert. A total of 84 new…

Some recent discussions in the community have indicated that the Theme directory is too “blog” focused, and that the Guidelines actively discourage non-blogging Themes from being submitted.  There are some things that are true, some things that are untrue, and some things that are simply outside of the control of the Theme Review Team, in…

Based on the recent discussion prompted by @lancewillett, the following change has been made to the Guidelines, effective immediately: the Theme Unit Tests have been reduced in criticality from Required to Recommended. We believe that this change will help eliminate a source of subjectivity/inconsistency in Theme reviews, while ensuring that review effort focuses on the…

Chip’s great post on Points of Emphasis and a recent discussion about a specific Theme Unit Test guideline (failing themes with long titles that overflow) point to a need to change our attitudes to the theme review guidelines. If you step away from that specific TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for…