Theme Review

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 28, 2022

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

Concept for a guided code editor showing a “Build your first block” button.

wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

Dan Knauss

March 16, 2021

wJosepha Haden shared her "early thoughts" 💭 on WordPress 5.8 planning, including this intention: "For the release that includes full site editing, I would like to pause our cohort mentorship processes and replace it with a public coordination channel for…

Denis Žoljom, an Automation representative on…

Dan Knauss

April 17, 2020

Denis Žoljom, an Automation representative on the Theme Review Team, has written a proposal to use GitHub for code review for themes submitted to wordpress.org. 💡

A new Theme Review Team structure…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

A new Theme Review Team structure has been announced. The team no longer has leads but instead has "representatives." They will be adopting a flat team structure with loosely defined roles and responsibilities where individuals can contribute in the ways…

Denis Žoljom announced a new release…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

Denis Žoljom announced a new release of the Theme Sniffer plugin and the WPThemeReview coding standards. 👃 Theme Sniffer is a plugin that applies custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer to verify that your theme adheres to WordPress coding conventions. Those conventions…

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to improve the WordPress theme directory and decided to "strike while the iron is hot" — he has a proposal to create standardized packages for common theme features. These packages would be available from the official…

The theme directory disconnect

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2017

BusinessDesign

In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

Notes from a recent meeting of…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

Notes from a recent meeting of the Theme Review Team reflect a discussion of what methods for upselling are currently allowed in the theme repo. A majority involved in the discussion so far are in favor of enacting some restrictions, which…

It looks like the WordPress Theme Review…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

It looks like the WordPress Theme Review Team's proposal to overhaul the outdated tags/filters will make it into WordPress 4.6. Theme authors will want to be ready to update their themes with the new tags when this goes into effect so they can…

There’s an update from the WordPress Theme…

March 21, 2016

There's an update from the WordPress Theme Review Team on their efforts to reduce manual reviews of WordPress themes, with focus in this post on a proposal for some guidelines relating to template requirements (everything from no PHP/JS errors to spelling…

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

WordPress.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.org has made incredible strides the last few years on improving the quality of the themes in the repository. Every theme goes through a stringent approval process, thanks to the WordPress Theme Review Team. But discovery can still be challenging on WordPress.org.