Source: Make WordPress: Themes

See the make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post here: WordPress 3.6: the Post Formats UI feature If anyone has any particular input into the what/how of improvements/changes to or standardization of Post Formats, please contribute there. We’ll do our best to stay on…

Theme Documentation: In lieu of a readme.txt file, Themes are recommended to include a changelog, indicating version-to-version Theme changes. In past months we noticed that Theme Authors either do not have the changelog or the changelog is very poor. Here are some examples: Changelog Version 1.1 – Improvements Version 1.1 – Minor Menu Changes Version…

We don’t track our progress as a project very well. We have relatively few stats that we look at over time to see how we’re growing/changing, and those we do have are largely cobbled together with various combinations of manual labor and scripting. One of the things I want to do this year is get…

Team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. votes are in! 27 people voted, with this breakdown of involvement levels: 14 – I am an active member of the…

While the clock has started ticking on the 3.5 release grace period for Guidelines updates, I would like to discuss formalizing one other _doing_it_wrong() issue that has been implicitly enforced for some time now: use of query_posts(). Would anyone be opposed if we formally added query_posts() to Theme Check as a required stopper? To understand…

Hello, Theme Review Team! It’s that time again… Earlier this year, we took a stab at creating a structure for contributor group communication, based on identifying working groups and letting each group elect team reps. All the teams were represented at the community summit at the end of October, which was a huge step forward…

Chip brought up a good point on the https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test named XML file — it always looks out of date because of the naming. I renamed it to theme-unit-test-data.xml to avoid that confusion. It gets updated fairly frequently, probably once a month to fix 404s and add new test data, so when that happens I’ll update…

It is that time of year again: with the upcoming release of WordPress 3.5, the Theme Review Team conducts its periodic review of the Theme Review Guidelines, and proposes any changes, either as necessitated by the new WordPress version, or otherwise as-needed. The 3.5 release has little impact on Themes, and as such will be…

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Since Twenty Twelve is coming very soon to the Extend directory, I wanted to share a bit of background on default themes and why they change from year to year. In 2005 Kubrick launched as the new default theme, then didn’t change for five years. It became a punchline for the project. With Twenty Ten…