Our agenda for this meeting can be found here https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2020/11/08/themes-team-meeting-agenda-for-november-10/
Weekly updates:
- 266 tickets were opened
- 275 tickets were closed:
- 260 tickets were made live.
- 18 new Themes were made live.
- 242 Theme updates were made live.
- 6 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 15 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
A new requirement for links in content
The team decided to add a new accessibility requirement that will affect all themes, not only themes that use the accessibility-ready tag. The full requirement can be read here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/required/#content-link
Links within content must be underlined.
When links appear within a larger body of block-level content, they must be clearly distinguishable from surrounding content.
Removing the requirement of specific CSS classes
Theme authors are encouraged to support the following WordPress CSS classes but are no longer required to do so. The themes team will not be checking for these classes during review.
.sticky
.bypostauthor
.alignleft
.alignright
.aligncenter
.wp-caption
.wp-caption-text
.gallery-caption
Please allow some time for the team to update the plugins to reflect this change.
Organizing documentation and Tutorials for Full Site Editing themes
During the meeting we discussed where to publish documentation and tutorials for Full Site Editing themes / block-based themes.
These can first be published on the Themes Team’s blog and be moved to the Theme Developer Handbook once Full Site Editing is no longer experimental. We expect further discussions to take places when there is more material.
The next Themes team meeting is Tuesday November 24 at 15:00 UTC.