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As of today’s team meeting, title-tag support is now required for all themes. We keep a back-compatibility policy of two versions, and the title tag feature was added in WordPress 4.1. So, we’re at that point. The team has put up a ticket to get this added to the Theme Check pluginPlugin A plugin is…

Weekly meeting agenda Our weekly meeting is on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in #themereview. What shall we talk about? It’s good to every now and then have an open meeting so we can talk about anything that people want to. Lets do that this week. There is no set agenda so please add what you’d…

As more and more theme authors begin to make the move to 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., many are also making the switch to storing theme options as theme mods rather than rolling…

The front page shown in the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ theme previewer has been a subject of much…

Theme review team weekly meeting notes The logs are here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1439920746000487 We have a suggested flow for the uploading of themes to the directory and a post will be coming. @greenshady has created a metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that…

House-cleaning Scheduled 4.3 release! Brace for updates pinging/CC’ing Topics: metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tickets upsell links and such Login to Reply

If you haven’t heard, we love the 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 means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive…

SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ link: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1439315950003363 Great meeting! Items discussed: Testing against Alpha/BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house…

Link to SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ archives: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1438711121002303 Rather short meeting about tags. It is looking like we have narrowed down to just a handful: Accommodation (changed from “Hotel”) Blog Business ( changed from “Corporate”) e-Commerce (combined with Retail) Education…

Last week, we got some useful feedback on updating the tags/filters for the directory. Feel free to “+1” or “-1” anything from the following lists. We need as much feedback as possible. Layout Tags A “Grid” tag was proposed as an addition. There seems to be confusion over the existing layout tags: Fixed Fluid Responsive…