WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web WP_Query Changes in 6.1 Jonathan Harris emphasized in Post Status Slack #development and on Twitter this week that WordPress 6.1 is bringing big changes to WP_Query — changes he's been working on for…
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wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…
Dan Knauss
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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
PlanetWordPress News
The Theme Review Team announced that all themes hosted on WordPress.org will be required to use the Customizer for theme options moving forward. The new requirement will be phased in over 6 months, which gives existing theme authors some time…
WordPress.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired
Brian Krogsgard
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 (sidenote: get involved here). But discovery…
