Source: Make WordPress: Themes

@poena had a great idea on a post where we can all get involved and I wanted to share it with you today. Every reviewer has their own preference on how to best review a theme; where to start, what plugins to use, what platform and browser to test on. We want to encourage new reviewers…

It seems that the team has to answer the question, “Can I have a slider/carousel/etc. in my theme?” almost weekly. The question is both simple and complex, if such a thing is possible. Stick with me for a moment while I explain. I hope this post helps answer your questions. Please ask any related questions…

In our most recent meeting we had an open floor. The subject of a changelog and standardizing the readme file was brought up. There have been several themes that are using changelogs but there are also several that are not. What is a changelog A changelog is a log or record of all the changes made to a…

Advertising in themes is always a bit of a tough subject to discuss. It can be hard finding a balance between elegant marketing and providing a quality free theme that doesn’t get in the way of the user if they don’t want to purchase anything from you. Many on the theme review team have commercial…

Thank you everyone for your for helping out with the reviews. In 2015 910 new themes were reviewed and set live by 236 reviewers. I would like to especially thank a few people who have reviewed over 2% of the total themes. @djrmom, @poena, @rabmalin, @kevinhaig, @catchthemes, @jcastaneda, @alex27, @karmatosed, @antsanchez and @benlumia007. Also a…

Hi theme review folks! Thanks for all your hard work and contributions in 2015. Could you contribute few more minutes to fill in the 2015 contributor survey? It will help us establish some baselines around the contributor experience so that we can see how things change over time. **This is being posted to all the…

In the past week or so, we’ve had to suspend a couple of themes from the directory. Suspending a theme is something that we never like to do. It’s usually more of a last resort type of thing. However, there are times when we need to take a firm stance. Recently, we started auto-approving all…

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Hi! You may recall some time ago there was a post that mentioned a thing called the doing_it_wrong theme. Yeah. That small tool to help in looking for things when conducting a review. Or perhaps when you are trying to teach a group of people about theme reviews. Yes, that. If you haven’t already, check…

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