Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, July 13 2021, 15:00 UTC
The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on the WordPress Slack and you need an account to participate.
Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.
We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend.
Meeting agenda
- Weekly updates
- Theme directory uploads
- Preventing spam and keyword stuffing in theme descriptions
- Theme Check plugin new update
- Open floor
Weekly Updates
Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/
Themes Trac ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph
Check regular weekly updates here.
Also check,
Theme Directory uploads
Last week, theme uploads were broken for a few hours due to a Trac Authentication change. It looks like the themes got added to SVN, but the trac ticket didn’t get made.
Meta team disabled the uploads for some time before fixing it.
We would like to thank meta team and @dd32 for the quick fix.
Preventing spam and keyword stuffing in theme descriptions
Theme developers have used keyword stuffing in the theme description for their theme to show up when a user searches for a popular theme. There has been at least one negative review from a user calling this “click bait” and it has
been brought up by theme developers that this should not be allowed in the theme directory.
See the related meta ticket #5773. For this, we may need to clarify the theme requirements.
As an example, you can read how this is handled in the plugin guidelines:
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#9-developers-and-their-plugins-must-not-do-anything-illegal-dishonest-or-morally-offensive
Theme Check plugin new update
Dion(@dd32) is going to release a new version of the Theme Check plugin in a few days to fix uploading Block themes to the theme directory.
So, If anyone has anything else they’d like to get into the next release, if you can get it merged sooner (within reason, tested, etc) than later that’d be great.
Open floor
We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.
Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.