Source: Make WordPress: Themes

Last night, a few of us were together tossing ideas around. Matt himself seemed to be willing to open some avenues that TRT had previously believed were closed to us. That’s pretty exciting stuff because it means we might be able to make some of the major changes that many of us have wanted to…

There has been a lot of ideas coming up in 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/ over the past 24hours. This is a way to get them all together. We can also use this as a way to find out what people…

Currently if you send an update in you have to wait for it to be reviewed again. What is being suggested would be that this gets removed. Themes that are updates get automatically updated. As we want to be transparent about any change, we are posting here for 24hours to get opinions before we implement…

One of the most important functional aspects of a Theme that must be tested during Theme review is the Theme’s handling of front page display settings. It seems that this test is either getting missed during Theme reviews, or else is being misunderstood. The misunderstanding is, unfortunately, related to Justin’s earlier post regarding front page…

It has recently come to my attention that several themes are adding full front-page demo content to show off their themes in the theme previewer. Basically, this is not cool. No, there’s no specific guideline in the handbook against it. I really don’t think there needs to be one. This falls under the universal don’t…

Some time ago, the Theme Review Guidelines underwent a major revision, with focus on Theme Review Requirements, and moving of the official version of those Requirements from the Codex to the Theme Review Handbook. During that change, several requirements were omitted from the previous iteration. Those omissions, along with the apparent spread of documentation locations,…

One of the things we’ve been discussing is setting up a 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. snippet repository on the TRT GitHub account. Nothing is exactly set in stone just yet, but we wanted…

First theme tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. meeting. We are having our first theme trac meeting on . This will be a chance to look at tickets in themes and also coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The…

Weekly meeting notes The archive is here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1432663198000608 We had a very active chat, here is a summary. This Saturday 31st May we are having a queue sprint again. Any admins or key reviewers will be focusing on the admin approval queue. Everyone else please focus on the review queue. Lets get those queues down!…

Weekly meeting agenda This week we’re going to have a meeting at 18:00 UTC. We have no set agenda, so please add anything you’d like to talk about here as a comment. #agendaLogin to Reply