This week’s meeting:
Today we had our weekly meeting. You can find the archive here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1416938377003366
Housekeeping:
There are some good posts to catch up on this make.blog:
Handbook version one refresh goes live tomorrow. This focuses on guidelines (required, recommended) and restructuring. We need to focus and not edit all at once, lets collect feedback in comments. I will be making blog post about this when happens.
There is a mentoring update too: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/11/24/mentoring-update-2/. We’re looking for mentors so if you fit let us know!
Comments.php
There is an issue with the guideline dropping having to have comments.php. @frank-klein brought this up.
This lead into a general topic about hooks and what we should or shouldn’t support. This then grew as a discussion.
Shortcodes
@greenshady brought up the shortcode issue as to either fix the theme check or show an info notice. As a result we decided a new requirement:
“No shortcodes are allowed”
Next week we shall have a meeting on hooks and what ones should even be required. This will be kicked off by a post from @chipbennett on this blog. You are free to add your voice to that opinion post. We’re keen to get a discussion and work through this.