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End-of-February Queue Push
Who’s up for a push to clear out the queue? We’ll call it the “end of February” push, but we can use the weekend, too. There are almost 150 tickets awaiting review. We have about 90 people with close-ticket privileges. That’s less than one and a half tickets per reviewer, by the end of the…
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Clarifying Guidelines for Theme Name
The current guidelines for Theme Name are as follows: Themes are not to use WordPress in their name. For example My WordPress Theme, WordPress AwesomeSauce, andAwesomeSauce for WordPress would not be accepted. After all, this is the WordPress Theme repository. Themes are not to use the term Theme in their name, such as: AwesomeSauce Theme. Same reason as above … it’s a Themerepository. Themes may use the WP acronym in the Theme name, such…
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Coming-Soon Themes
Another topic for discussion: Coming Soon Themes. Should the Theme Directory host “Coming Soon” Themes? If so, how should we handle them? By design, Coming Soon Themes would omit some functionality (e.g. comments) that would get flagged/blocked by the uploader script, and by design such Themes would obviously not pass the Theme Unit Tests. And…
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Theme Branding/White-Labeling Guidelines
Recently some questions have come up on the mail-list that I think warrant extended discussion here. Those questions essentially revolve around Theme branding vs. “white labeling”: should footer credit links be required to be user-configurable (i.e. disabled) via Theme option? Should Themes include “branded” default logos or demonstration content, such as slider content, Twitter feeds,…
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Twenty Thirteen Draft Now in Core
Hi theme reviewers, Twenty Thirteen is ready for feedback and testing in core: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/02/18/introducing-twenty-thirteen/ Our goal is to have it ready along with the rest of 3.6 for an April launch. Would love your eyes on it for testing, performance, tying in with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The…
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Child Theme Support
I have just added a draft section to the Theme Review Guidelines, to cover requirements for Child Theme support/facilitation for hosted Themes: Themes are required to facilitate the use of Child Themes. A “basic” Child ThemeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child…
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Theme Support: What tools would make WPORG support forums better?
Theme developers: please see this discussion on Make/Support, and provide your input with respect to supporting your Themes via the official WPORG support forums. #support
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Clarification of Screenshot Guidelines
The current guidelines for the Theme screenshot read as follows: Recommended 4:3 W:H ratio, size 600x450px (2x the previous 300x225px, to account for Retina displays). Maximum size: 600x450px Should be a “reasonable facsimile” of the Theme after it is initially activated with default options I think a bit of clarification is in order, with respect…
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Theme Support Link
Going over the support forums lately, we are noticing some changes about how the theme author’s prefer to support their themes and many would rather provide a support on their site -vs doing this from WPORG. In addition of having different members answering the questions whether or not they are the right one. The Scoop To take the load from…
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Welcome
Welcome to the Themes team! We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory. We do license, security, and code quality reviews. We help build and maintain default themes. The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to blockBlock…