Projects are a way we can help improve different areas which are related to themes on wordpress.org.
This is where we will be collecting all of our current and future projects.
If you have an idea for a project please suggest them during a team meeting. We will define new projects to put emphasis on with every release cycle.
Current Projects
Full Site Editing
The focus for many contributor teams in 2020 is full site editing. If you want to know more, please attend our Block Based Themes meetings. See the meeting calendar.
Theme Review Automation
Formerly “Theme Check automation”
Lead: @dingo_d
We want to improve the automation so that we can reduce the number of checks that need to be made manually. Why are we working to improve the automation of the theme review?
You can help with the following:
View open issues on WPTT Github, review pull requests, open new issues, report bugs.
https://github.com/WPTT/WPThemeReview
https://github.com/WPTT/theme-sniffer
Feature Packages
Lead @aristath
The team is releasing several featured packages that theme authors can include in their projects.
https://packagist.org/packages/wptrt/
https://github.com/WPTT/control-color-alpha
https://github.com/WPTT/customize-section-button
https://github.com/WPTT/admin-notices
Autoloader: https://github.com/WPTT/autoload
You can help with the following:
Suggest new ideas for packages, report bugs and open issues on Github, review pull requests.
Theme Developer Handbook
Leads: @acalfieri, @aristath
Complete and update the Theme Developer Handbook.
- Clearing the To-Do list located at https://trello.com/b/sBXllyQT/theme-developer-handbook
- Updating specific articles to reflect recent core changes.
You can help with the following:
Report problems with current texts. Help write new or updated texts for the handbook.
Review and update the introduction documentation
Lead: @poena
The introduction to theme reviewing and related documentation needs to be reviewed and updated accordingly.
You can help with the following:
Feedback from new and experienced reviewers is needed to be able to fill gaps that is missing in the introduction.
Requirements refresh
Lead: @poena
The requirements were last worked on specifically in 2013 at the community summit. The goal is to have another look at the requirments to make sure they are clear, easy to follow and easy to check. To see about the goals and milestones see the introduction post.
Review the theme tags
Theme tags are reviewed approximately once per year. When new features are added to WordPress, the tags often need to be updated.
We want to consider overall improvements to the entire feature filter box and what can be done to make this better for users.
Completed Projects
Create a FAQ Page
Lead: @thinkupthemes
Post: Starting a FAQ page
We are collecting frequently asked questions by reviewers and authors. This will help understand where we have holes in the documentation and look to improve it with a FAQ page.
The end result is the following page which has been already been used multiple times.
Restart the mentoring programme
Lead: @thinkupthemes
Post: Mentor Program 2017
Improve the quality of theme review by helping new reviews understand the requirements and the theme review process.
Future Projects
Reviewer flow
The idea is to review the current workflow and work on improving it using Github which is more suitable for doing code reviews.
Contributor Day Package
We want contributor days to be able to get started with theme reviews without needed a team lead to be present. A part of that would be to improve the doingitwrong theme that we have started. Also related to “Review and update the introduction documentation“
Improve the theme preview
The current theme previewer is not able to show the all of the features included in a theme.
Featured Themes
Featured theme are currently a random list of themes that have been updated in the last two years. This is not an ideal list of themes. A proposal needs to be put together how a better list of themes could be displayed.
Document the history of the theme review team
Create a page on the main milestones of the theme review team who helped to achieve them.
Improve theme search on WordPress.org
Think of way the theme search can be improved to display relevant and good themes.
Recycling theme names
Theme names get locked even if a theme is never set live. Discuss and document a process to release these names after fulfilling certain conditions.
Multiple Theme Authors
Add support for multiple people to be listed as the owner/contributor of a theme. Related Meta Ticket: #27