Hello everyone. These are the meeting notes from the themes review team discussion on January 11, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting was facilitated by @kafleg. The note was taken by @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here in the past 7 days,
- 320 tickets were opened
- 323 tickets were closed:
- 299 tickets were made live.
- 29 new Themes were made live.
- 270 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 24 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 299 tickets were made live.
Number of reviewers: 4
Block Themes
6 block themes are live in the past 7 days.
2. Noteworthy Updates
The themes team continues to update the Theme Handbook with the block theme information. Big thanks to @poena for her extensive help.
- Block themes
- Block theme setup
- Templates and template parts
- theme.json
- Converting a classic theme to a block theme
- Creating new themes using the Site Editor
- Internationalization
- Accessibility
There are great ongoing discussions related to converting classic to block and customizer. We will continue to update the theme handbook as we get more inputs from more people. In case you are interested in joining the conversations. Please share your thoughts and experiences.
3. Get ready for WordPress 5.9
We all have been waiting this moment. WordPress 5.9 has finally arrived. We encourage theme authors to test your theme with WordPress 5.9 for any issues.
4. Open floor
We discussed the upcoming WordCamp Europe on June 3-4 2022. You can find more information here.
We also discussed what kind of block theme examples should be included in the Theme Developer Handbook? (per @poena). @kafleg commented that a very basic theme with some settings on theme.json and minimum templates parts and patterns would be fine. He also recommends the Block theme generator and an empty theme that authors can generate from here.