What is the Themes Team?
The Themes Team is a group of volunteers who reviews and approves themes submitted to the official WordPress theme directory and maintains the Theme Developer Handbook.
The team also engages and educates the WordPress Theme developer community regarding development best practices.
The Themes Team:
- Reviews and approves themes submitted to the official WordPress theme directory
- Helps build and maintain community themes and default themes
- Contributes to the Theme Developer Handbook
- Reviews and approves patterns submitted to the official WordPress Pattern directory
- Maintains the theme review handbook, and requirements for including a theme in the theme directory
- Maintains the theme test data, and the theme check plugin.
- Contributes to solving theme-related enhancements and bugs in WordPress and Gutenberg
How to get involved?
Are you interested in joining the Themes Team? Great! The team is open to anyone who wants to help out, just reach out via Slack, -see the details below.
There are many ways to contribute to the team. If you would like to join the Themes Team as a reviewer; a volunteer who helps theme authors add their theme to the official theme directory; please see Become a Reviewer.
Communication
The main form of communication is through our blog and also through WordPress Slack. You can join the Slack channel #themereview. Find out more about Slack via this link. This is the best way to contact the team.
The team’s email address is themes@wordpress.org.
Meetings
The Themes Team has several meetings a month in the #themereview Slack channel:
- Team meeting, second and fourth Tuesday of the month @ 15:00 UTC