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In recent years we’ve seen an increasing number of new authors and reviewers join the Theme Review team. In itself this is fantastic, to see the community growing and thriving as it is. However, we must recognize that reviewing a theme is not a simple task and there is a significant learning curve that needs…

I see a few of the same questions pop up in the #themereview channel. @thinkupthemes brought up the idea to create a FAQ page where we can point reviewers, theme authors when they have questions that we have already answered in the FAQ. This will also help us find where our documentation is lacking. We…

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 18:00 UTC Topics: Social Media There have been a few questions about integrating social media elements in a theme. As theme features: Social media links with icons settings are allowed. Social media buttons to share posts…

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 18:00 UTC Topics: Demo & starter content In December we discussed what restrictions we wanted to apply to demo and starter content but in the last meeting we discovered that some of the ideas could be improved…

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 18:00 UTC Topics: Demo & starter content In December we discussed what restrictions we wanted to apply to demo and starter content. We define placeholder content as “Anything that is shown that you cannot pull from the user’s install”…

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We had a fairly productive meeting with loads of good ideas. Read the Slack transcript here. Hangout Ideas Ideas proposed for the next hangout: Working with the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., possibly discussing…

The last meeting was on November 10, which was a short meeting and there was a bit of confusion about the time change. @miyauchi mentioned he was working https://github.com/miya0001/behat-wp-theme-review which could take screenshots of the theme and run automated tests to check a few things after installing the theme . @rabmalin asked about integrating the theme sniffssniff…

The summit is approaching and we need to have a series of discussion points. Over this week, lets get points and then vote in next week’s meeting. From the make.community blog: 1) Each make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source…

Topics discussed Finalize upsell clarify that authors need to use the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. api to add the upsell Themes should not display obtrusive up-selling demo and starter content requirements. define what…