The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.
- Date: September 24, 2024
- Time: 15:00 UTC
- Location: #themereview channel
- Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
- Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
- Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
- Notes taker – @kafleg
- Full transcript – #themereview channel
Attendees:
1. Weekly updates
In the past 7 days,
- 748 tickets were opened
- 747 tickets were closed
- 738 tickets were made live.
- 35 new Themes were made live.
- 703 Theme updates were made live.
- 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 9 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 738 tickets were made live.
Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.
Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @rinkuyadav999)
Block Themes:
- 18 Block themes are currently being reviewed
- 13 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
2. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development
So far we’ve 49 contributors who already contributed and they will be counted as a core contributor in WP 6.7 release. This is a good and easy way to contribute to WordPress core. You can even contribute by testing the PRs or finding the bug in the theme.
If you need any idea, you can always use #core-themes channel and ask your queries there. During the meeting @kafleg said, “It’s not about contributing only, it’s a great chance to learn building block themes with experienced block theme developers.”
3. Testing Theme Check Plugin PRs
Themes team is looking for helping hand to test the PRs that we’ve in the Theme Check plugin.
- This PR needs testing, https://github.com/WordPress/theme-check/pull/457
- More PRs, https://github.com/WordPress/theme-check/pulls
If you are block theme developer or want to create block theme, you need to know how to add skip links or how to test skip link requirement.
Thank you @onemaggie for creating PR for skip links in the block theme. Anyone can test this PR on your themes or other’s block theme as well.
4. Open Floor
During the open floor, @greenshady shared a quick note about Accessibility chapter in the theme handbook. If you are interested, check here, https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/816
Thank you @lamarajan for your interest. @joedolson said, Accessibility Team is currently in the process of revising the accessibility-ready requirements and process and having goal to finish in November. @alh0319 is also interested helping for this task.
@richtabor was also curious if anyone’s explored adding text styles to themes. Justin said, “I add block style variations for consistent text styles.”