Themes team meeting notes for October 22, 2024 – DocsWP

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Date: October 22, 2024
Time: 15:00 UTC
Location: #themes channel
Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
Notes taker – @bijayyadav
Full transcript – #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting.

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

751 tickets were opened
755 tickets were closed
- 741 tickets were made live.
  - 20 new Themes were made live.
  - 721 Theme updates were made live.
  - 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 14 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb,@bijayyadav)

Block themes status:

22 Block themes are currently being reviewed
5 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

Currently, we have 86 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

2. SEO Keyword stuffing in the theme name

While reviewing themes or checking the themes repo, we found some themes’ names is not like a name but more SEO keyword stuffing.

Theme name like `SEO Specialist Agency` is more like keywords, not name. During the meeting, @williampatton said, “That does seem kinda keyword loaded to me but I don’t know if it violates any rules”. @heatheracton added, “Given these themes are meant for wide use, it could be suggested they change to “Specialist Agency”. “SEO Specialist Agency” seems pretty niche? Maybe could add something to the theme developer handbook, recommending generic names?”

Aslam Naik said, “If an author persistently submits themes which are obvious keyword stuffing, we can suggest them. If they are using long-tail keywords we can suggest or request changes, I think once they know reviewers are aware of this issue, they will automatically deter”.

@kafleg summarized that to reduce such name by,

Check the name of the theme and if the name seems Keyword stuffing, inform the theme author to change it.
Suggest some good name ideas.
If they repeatedly do, again ask them to change.

During the meeting, we agreed to follow this and then see how it will work in coming days.

3. Twenty Twenty-Five theme testing

Testing the TT5(Twenty Twenty-Five) theme is also a good way to contribute to the WordPress project. You can test PRs or the entire theme with current and previous versions of WordPress, as well as in different PHP versions.

During the meeting, @heatheracton shared, “Just wanted to share that I’m submitting my first ever Issue after testing the TT5 theme.”

We love to see your active contribution to testing the TT5 theme. Also, the RC1 of 6.7 is released.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared that, KafleG, @shivashankerbhatta and @ohia talked with the Contributor Mentorship Program themes team mentee and it was a nice talk.

Matias is looking for reviewers who can review PRs for the theme check plugin.

See you everyone at the next meeting! Mark your calendar for second Tuesday of November.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team