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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 the release squad that allows passive learning through observation and release squad transparency.” Josepha recently…
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 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 that matter most to them.
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 are specified by the official Theme Review Team coding standard, WPThemeReview.
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 Theme Review GitHub account. 📦 The first package is already available. It’s a Pro/Upsell link…
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 to browse thousands of themes they can use on their websites for free. The notion…
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 include: No global nags at top of admin pages. +12 One top-level link in the…
It looks like the WordPress Theme Review Team’s proposal to overhaul the outdated tags/filters will make it into WordPress 4.6.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 be found more easily via search.
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 WordPress properly). If you feel like something should be added to this list (or edited,…
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 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.
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