Source: Make WordPress: Themes

Theme Developers: Many of you are aware of a minor bug in the Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. implementation for Themes, in which add_theme_page() is passed the “edit_theme_options” capability, but the settings…

All WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ passwords are reset due to suspicious commits earlier today. You will need to…

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and Extend are back in sync again; apologies for the delays. #extend, #sync, #trac

Important information for Theme developers regarding jQuery changes in WordPress 3.2. If you use jQuery, please read! #3-2, #jquery

Theme reviewers and developers: WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 is upon us. Reviewers, now is the time to switch your test environments to the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly…

Theme Developers: thanks to Otto, the WordPress.org Themes and Templates support forum now incorporates some features that have been available to PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress…

I have just published a guide to reviewing Themes for the WordPress Theme Repository, which will hopefully offer some guidance for all of our wonderful new review team volunteers. Note: I published the guide on my personal site, rather than here on the official WPTRT site, because I want to emphasize that the guide is…

Child-Themes will now be considered for inclusion into the WordPress Extend Themes repository. Note: Child Themes are not currently being considered for inclusion in WordPress Extend. Please be sure to read the Theme Review process and guidelines; also, please note the additional Child-Theme guidelines before submitting a Child-Theme for consideration. Please note, although at the…

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and Extend have been reviewed and brought back into sync again.

I thought we already allowed child themes for BuddyPress as an exception to the rule? This ticket https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2996 was an update for https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme and was just rejected for being a child theme – I would have re-opened the trac ticket and commented there but I don’t have the rights to do that on the Theme…