KafleG 11:04 am on July 8, 2024
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Themes team meeting agenda for July 09, 2024

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting for this month is scheduled for July 9.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, July 09, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time at the end for an open floor session where you are welcome to ask questions or share any themes-related information.

We highly encourage all members, as well as anyone with an interest, to participate. If you have specific agenda items you would like to include, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development
  3. CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. upsells in themes
  4. Review the theme name manually
  5. Theme Previews and Starter Content Customization
  6. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

KafleG 10:50 am on June 26, 2024
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – June 25, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 1002 tickets were opened
  • 1007 tickets were closed
    • 999 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 963 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 8 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: 3 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @vowelweb)

BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Themes Stats:

  • 22 Block themes are currently being reviewed.
  • 10 Block theme has been live in the last 7 days.

At the moment, we have 785 block themes in the repository.

2. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Updates

@kafleg and @onemaggie was the table lead for WCEU Contributor Day. During the meeting we achieve the following things in a day.

Community Themes:
PRs

  • Opened 8
  • Merged: 4

Default theme TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets:

  • 2 commits
  • 1 closed issue
  • 13 tickets updated

Patterns live in the repo:

  • 2 patterns live

Theme Reviews:

  • 2 themes live
  • 7 Reviewed

Email:

  • 10 emails replied

Thank you to everyone who joined the themes table at Contributor Day in WCEU.

3.  New default theme TT5 progress

There is no update about the new default theme Twenty Twenty-Five yet. It is supposed to bundle in WordPress 6.7.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared about theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. version 3. WordPress 6.6 contains some updates to theme.json including a new version and associated schema. Read more here, Theme.json version 3 – Make WordPress Themes

@glycymeris shared that they were talking about the project of data in WCEU. They also have data about themes, https://www.wpopendata.org/themes/

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 5:28 am on June 25, 2024
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Themes team meeting agenda for June 25, 2024

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting for this month is scheduled for June 25.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time at the end for an open floor session where you are welcome to ask questions or share any themes-related information.

We highly encourage all members, as well as anyone with an interest, to participate. If you have specific agenda items you would like to include, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Alex Lende 3:59 pm on June 21, 2024  

Theme.json version 3 frequently asked questions

WordPress 6.6 contains some updates to theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. including a new version and associated schema.

Why do we need a new version?

The theme.json version is incremented whenever a breaking change needs to be made to the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. This allows consumers to opt-in to the breaking change by updating the version. Older theme.json versions will always be supported in the latest versions of WordPress.

Why does my code editor tell me to update to version 3?

You are probably not using the correct theme.json schema version. Use the schema version that matches your minimum supported WordPress version.

The WordPress release versions of the schema follow the pattern: https://schemas.wp.org/wp/x.y/theme.json.

For example, you should use "$schema": "https://schemas.wp.org/wp/6.5/theme.json" in your theme.json if the minimum supported WordPress version for your theme is WordPress 6.5.

Why both a theme.json version and a JSON schema version?

They are used for different things.

The theme.json version is what WordPress uses to handle backward compatibility. It keeps your theme looking the same in newer versions of WordPress even if the names of properties change, defaults changes, or other breaking changes are added in a new version.

The schema version is what your editor uses to tell you if you’re doing something wrong in your theme.json. It’s tied to the WordPress version so it can keep track of which features are available in each version of WordPress. This means that you can specify which version of WordPress you want to support and only the theme.json features from that version will show up in autocomplete and be validated as correct in your editor.

Should I update my theme to use version 3?

Probably not yet.

Version 3 theme.json will require a minimum version of WordPress 6.6, so if you update your theme to use version 3, you will need to specify 6.6 as the minimum version of the theme.

When you want to use new theme.json features from WordPress 6.6 or later and are okay with bumping the minimum WordPress version for your theme to support them, then you can migrate your theme.json to version 3.

How do I migrate to version 3?

  1. Follow the instructions in the theme.json reference guide for migrating v2 to v3 to update your theme.json.
  2. Remember to update the minimum version of your theme to WordPress 6.6 or later.

What about new themes?

For new themes, it’s probably best to use the new version of theme.json, as long as you are happy that only users on WordPress 6.6 or higher will be able to use your theme.

Props @scruffian and @onemaggie for helping write and review this post.