Source: Make WordPress: Themes

The Theme Review Team is considering guidelines regarding handling of jQuery (and any other scripts bundled with and registered by WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.) by Repository-hosted Themes. We would like to gather input and feedback on the following discussion points: The…

Sorry about all the issues many of you have reported when it comes to posting comments here. It is now fixed. #meta

After a prompt from Westi I added a note to Comments template standards on the Theme Development Codex page today. The comments.php template file shouldn’t contain function defines unless in a function_exist() check. Ideally all functions should be in functions.php. Example case: If comments.php contains function defines and the attachment.php loopLoop The Loop is PHP…

I’ve made a few changes to the theme uploader tool. There shouldn’t be any visible changes, but email me if anything looks weird on the next few theme tickets. Thanks! (It’s mostly just prep work for proper child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best…

How should Themes handle Internationalization? Currently, Internationalization is recommended, and if internationalization is incorporated, Themes are required to use theme-slug as a unique textdomain. What else should be considered? For example: If Themes include translation, should all strings be required to be translatable? If Themes do not include translation, should any strings be translatable? What…

I updated Log Deprecated Notices to 0.2-RC1 and pushed it live. It plays nicely with 3.1, and I was able to retain 3.0 compatibility, so please update and let me know if anything breaks. I haven’t worked in any new features, though I did change how the logging worked behind the scenes. Shout if you…

IRC Channel #wordpress-themes #freenode 10am EST. Saturday Theme Out Of Date – 1. Code the search to not include themes out of date, create new search for out of date themes – big “out of date” marker on the theme page for themes that are past a certain point. 2. Suspension for themes that haven’t…

I haven’t yet seen any discussion of this point in Phil’s post below, so I wanted to highlight it again: Some of the review team have brought it up that there should be a time limit for non-updated themes, our general consensus is 2 or 3 major revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record…

1) Parent themes of child themes that are developed need to be made child-theme ready; proper use of where to find files with get_template_part, get_stylesheet_ and get_template_ functions. 2) https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes documentation is applied as part of the theme review process when checking child themes, all information is to be considered good practice and required, with…

These themes have been processed by the Theme Review Team to be determined to be justifiable to suspend from the repository for one of the following reasons Splog links – links go to spam blogs invalid license information that is not gpl compatible or font license not found (1) or non-gpl restriction with footer credits…