Source: Make WordPress: Themes

And based on further feedback, the Post-Format related Guidelines have been changed again. To summarize: Post Formats Themes may optionally support Post Formats, including any, all, or none of the Post Format types. Unless an extension APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and…

Based on current feedback, a slight revision has been made to the upcoming WordPress 3.1 release-related changes to the Theme Review Guidelines. In short: in order to ensure UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about…

The Settings API was initially introduced in WordPress 2.7, and is incredibly powerful. Part of its power is its automation of settings security (nonces, etc.), as well as automation of most of the admin options-page generation. Thus, use of the Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs…

This post is to discuss the use of add_menu_page and add_submenu_page usage for theme options. When reviewing themes, the thoughts of usage are in several different camps at the moment and we’re looking for your opinions as well. The first thought is that the dev and theme team want to strongly push developers to utilize…

WordPress 3.1 RC1 is available … please keep in mind the Guideline changes as related to version 3.1 will be implemented one month after the release of the stable public version of 3.1 #guidelines

The WordPress Theme Review Team was given the privilege of managing the Featured Themes found at WordPress.org a couple of months ago. We have had many and various discussions on the topic although we had not put any of the idea into action. Yesterday, after being reminded we had not “Featured” any themes I simply…

Theme developers, take note: Mark Jaquith gives some useful information regarding coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. jQuery updates in WordPress 3.1: WordPress 3.1 uses jQuery 1.4.4, and jQuery UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the…

(Cross-posted.) Each week, I publish various statistics to measure the Theme Review process for Themes submitted for inclusion in the Official WordPress.org Theme Repository (any inaccuracies are due to manual counting). Here’s how we’ve done (improved/disimproved/maintained) over the week ending 20 Nov 2010: Compared with last week: The # of tickets closed decreased. (76 vs…

Proposed Guidelines changes for the upcoming WordPress 3.1 release have been posted for public feedback and comment. Please read and comment! #guidelines