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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

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Dan Knauss
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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.
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wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

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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…

A new Theme Review Team structure…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired

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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. But discovery can still be challenging on WordPress.org.
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