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  • Members

    Who are the Themes Team? Team Representatives Team Representatives are the people that do much of the work behind the scenes. They make sure that the theme team runs like clockwork. Every one of them is here to help the reviewers do their jobs and the theme team function smoothly.  Themes team representative – @bijayyadav @fahimmurshed and @greenshady…

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  • About the Team

    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…

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  • Become a Reviewer

    What is a theme reviewer? A theme reviewer is a volunteer who helps theme authors add their theme to the official theme directory. A reviewer installs and tests the theme, reviews the code and checks for security issues. The reviewer also confirms that the theme is compatible with GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU…

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  • Get involved

    Are you looking to join the Themes Team? Please see the About page to learn more about the team, what the team does, how to reach the team, and more. Are you interested in seeing how you can run a contribution session related to themes? Great, you’ve come to the right place! In this section…

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  • Design of the on focus admin menu and plugin activation links Test session Nov 10, 2014

    This week we discussed two tickets in our weekly test session. #28599 Better Visual Focus Indication in Admin Menu: @florianziegler, @afercia and @michaelarestad designed proposals we discussed. @michaelarestad came up with a mockup that needs more contrast but is beautiful. We will discuss this further with the ticket and on Wednesday at the a11yAccessibility Accessibility…

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  • Agenda for this week’s meeting This week we’re…

    Agenda for this week’s meeting This week we’re meeting on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC 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/ #themereview. Housekeeping: Language meeting, Twenty Fifteen reminder doing_it_wrong theme update from @jcastaneda Handbook update Design week challenge. We briefly talked about…

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  • Open Update Thread, Week of November 10th

    Let’s try this again. How are those meeting assignments going? How goes feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins merge and betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial…

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  • Requesting a new locale for Lingala language

    LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/: ln Sub-domain: ln.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where…

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  • Request for the Content Audit Plugin

    With some of the tasks that have been assigned to the Training Team, there was a discussion on how to assign and keep up with the lesson plans moving forward. I had recently written a blog post on the Content Audit pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that…

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  • Lets talk about making the theme review team easier to participate in for other languages

    We already are lucky enough to have a wide range of countries represented as Theme Reviewers. This benefits us as a team and going forward helps us especially with opening up the language themes are in. It’s a win-win situation. However, there are certain difficulties with someone not having English as their first language. As…

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