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Trusted Author Program – a year of its journey
Trusted authors (TA) program was started in April 2018 and it’s been more than a year of its journey. We got 56 applications in 2019, whereas we had 233 applicants in 2018. Some authors applied more than once after the rejection on the first try. Some tickets were still under review. There was an agenda…
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Meeting notes from August 13th, 2019
A meeting was held with the proposed agenda. The following is the recap of the meeting, you can read the meeting transcript in the slack archives (a Slack account is required). Weekly Updates Some authors asked their themes to be closed, which was done. If you need your existing tickets closed you can pingPing The…
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Theme Review Team Meeting Agenda for August 13, 2019
Theme review team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. We usually have fixed agendas for the fourth Tuesday meeting. But we have some agenda to discuss on this second Tuesday as well. We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, 13th August 2019, 17:00 UTC Agenda…
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Planning for keyboard navigation
The theme review team is requiring all themes to implement keyboard navigation in five weeks time, around the third of september 2019. Because this may be a complex task for many authors, we encourage you to start planning for and working on this as soon as possible. We want to point out that this requirement…
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The 5 minute review
This is step 12 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Sometimes, we don’t have enough time to review an entire theme. But there are still ways that we can help. Open the New queue on the themes tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like…
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Licensing -assets
This is step 11 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer So far we have checked the license and copyright for the theme itself, and the information on the theme authors website. The next step is to locate assets in the theme folder, and confirm their licenses. The most common problem we find is…
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Licensing, -both easy and difficult
This is step 10 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer Always start the review by confirming the license information. If you find that the theme is not 100% compatible with GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL…
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How to write and save the review
This is step 9 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer So you now have a theme, and you have access to the ticket in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. Before we go back to the requirements and how to actually check…
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Finding a theme to review
This is step 8 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer If you reached this page via the Theme Team’s blog, and you have not read the previous steps, please go to step one. 1) Say Hello! -We would love to meet you! If you haven’t already, come in and say hello to the…
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Getting to know the requirements
This is step 7 of our onboarding guide to becoming a reviewer For a theme to be added to the Theme Directory, the theme must: be GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This…