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Welcome to the Themes team!

We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

We do license, security, and code quality reviews.

We help build and maintain default themes.

The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to 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.-based themes.

If this sounds interesting, read more about the team here. Check out our guide for new reviewers and the frequently asked questions.

Handbooks and review requirements

The team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data, and helps the documentation team with the Theme Developer Handbook.

Coding standards and plugins

We maintain the WPThemeReview Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer, the Theme Sniffer plugin and Theme Check

Code Packages

We have code packages for themes available for use on Github and Packagist

Communication

Meet us in the #themereview 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/. channel.

Meetings:

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 15:00 UTC.

#themereview

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Date: April 23, 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

767 tickets were opened
784 tickets were closed
- 767 tickets were made live.
  - 54 new Themes were made live.
  - 713 Theme updates were made live.
  - 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 17 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)

2. Bug scrub session on bundled themes

In WordPress make 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/. #core-themes channel, @karmatosed is leading bug scrub sessions on bundled themes in that channel.

If you want to test bundled themes or contribute to bundled themes, you can join that channel and bug scrub meeting. Read here how the first bug scrub happened.

In addition to that, now we have a default themes issue tracker in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. If you find anything that is related to Default themes (Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three… etc) you can make the issue here. That would be easy for us to track the work.

This is not the replacement of TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. but a way to see the bigger picture with multiple tickets. GitHub is easy for many contributors, but Trac is not that easy.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @onemaggie shared that last week in the community themes of GitHub added an action that adds a link on every PR to playground that allows you to test that PR directly with the theme that has the changes active.

You can navigate to one of the PRs in GitHub and see the action.

Also, there is an issue reported to improve this GitHub action. You can also comment there to make it better.

@onemaggie also came up with another question. She said, “I have one thing that I wanted to bring up: where do we update the copy that is usually used in WordCamps for 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/.? so we include the default theme maintenance and community themes alongside reviews.”

@poena mentioned that there is a team handbook and there is some information about Contributor Day. She added, “I would prefer a full review and reorganization of the handbook, the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme., and the welcome area over short-term fixes.”

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