Source: Make WordPress: Themes

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 18:00 UTC. The following will be discussed during the meeting: Add wp.org align-wide and block-styles tags (filters) Talk about not allowing create_function(), issues with PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source…

Child Themes The decision is that themes must have certain uniqueness to be allowed in the repository, voted 10 yea and 1 nay. More details here. Team Lead Selection Unfortunately, there was no official decision about this topic. Theme Readme The decision is that themes will use the same readme.txt format as plugins. More details…

Following our meeting conversation, we have new requirements: Child themes must include more than minor changes (such as font and colour changes) to the parent theme to be accepted. To make it easier on the reviewer, make sure you describe what modifications/features you did on top of the parent theme (in a ticket comment). –…

This week we have a few items on the agenda to chat about. These are open discussion items, let’s hear your thoughts about them. Child Themes – minimum requirements to constitute a viable change, submission limitations for them in the queue and for TA program. Team Lead Selection – let’s talk about how leads are…

A few weeks ago, in a meeting, we were talking about allowing onboarding functionality and we had an interesting suggestion to make a guest post on the blog. Your opinions on this topic are welcomed. Author: Themeisle Discuss setup/onboarding wizard guidelines for themes Hello! We would like to bring into discussion our approach for onboarding…

We have a new requirement regarding affiliate links: Themes are not allowed to have affiliate URLs or links. This also includes paid sponsorship. Please make sure your themes follow this rule by removing any affiliate links. We’ll discuss the following subjects in the next meeting, October 9th: PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software…

After talking with the team leads, I was asked to publish an outline of ideas to consider for guidelines. These are being posted here for feedback from the entire community. Nothing is set in stone. The below and any comments will be discussed in the next team meeting. Now is the time to share your…

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 19:00 CEST 17:00 UTC The following will be discussed during the meeting: WordPress Theme Coding Standards sniff categorization General questions about other Theme Review open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code…

Slight change of plans, the previous rule was not sustainable and we had to change it as follows: Screenshots are allowed to display only dummy text that doesn’t suggest/describe theme features, functionality, or statistics. If it looks like an AD, then it’s not allowed. Dummy text examples: Lorem ipsum (or similar generators), text that doesn’t…

We added new requirements for screenshots and featured images, make sure you follow them. Screenshot Do not use subjective words like brilliant, amazing, best, trusted, etc. These words describe your opinion rather than what the theme actually is. Also, displaying theme statistics in screenshots is forbidden, e.g: top 100, most downloaded, 5 stars, etc. These…