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Meeting [ link ]. A Slack account is needed to view the archives. This weeks meeting would usually be open floor however there were several announcement to be made at this meeting as well. Changes detailed in the announcements are effective immediately. Announcements: New team lead hand-off has officially happened with @rabmalin and @thinkupthemes taking…

Meeting [ link ]. A Slack account is needed to view the archives. Items discussed: Workflow suggestion to improve the review process. Possibility of allowing new reviewers to focus purely on the more basic guidelines, and approve once these are completed. All other checks will be completed by a moderator in the final review. A…

The Theme Review Team holds a fortnightly meeting and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 17:00 UTC The following will be discussed during the meeting: Workflow suggestion to improve the review process. (Link) – raised by @poena. Review of open Theme TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for…

Meeting [ link ]. A Slack account is needed to view the archives. Items discussed: Use of Pixabay images. Pixabay images can now be used with themes, and are viewed no differently than all other CC0 licensed images. Pixabay terms prevent mass copying of the images to create a competing service, this is not relevant…

Meeting [ link ]. A Slack account is needed to view the archives. Items discussed: New team leads. @rabmalin and @thinkupthemes have been chosen by current leads to be the next team leads. Current team leads will be stepping down sometime in October. Exact date to be confirmed. Plan is for the new leads to…

The Theme Review Team holds a fortnightly meeting and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 17:00 UTC The following will be discussed during the meeting: New team leads. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. ticket #37661-core. Potential removal of featured…

A Slack account is needed to view the archives. Child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ names [link] Global admin notices [link] Display author email addresses [link]…

Tuesday, 5th of September – No meeting Thursday, 7th of September – “How to do a review” document meeting (formerly requirements rewrite) Channel: #themereview | Time: 17:00 UTC. Tuesday, 12th of September – Open floor meeting You can suggest topics by posting a comment. Let us know if you want to lead this meeting. Channel: #themereview |…

We have gathered a list of tasks that the team needs to do regularly in order to maintain the review flow, besides reviewing themes. If you feel “Oh yeah I can do that!” Please leave a comment, and we will include it in our spreadsheet and on the team members page.  If you are maybe…

Meeting [ link ]. A Slack account is need to view the archives. Items discussed: microformats [ link ] GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes,…