Agenda for 2017 February 28

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday at 18:00 UTC 18:00 UTC

Topics:

Team Representatives

Matt has asked us to choose three representatives from the Theme Review Team to meet with him to discuss the future of the theme directory. He wants to make sure the tech changes for the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party / theme directories are in line with what the moderation plans are.

We would like to suggest that @greenshady, @poena and @grapplerulrich would be the three representatives.

Let us know if there are any objections.

Community Summit 2017

In the last meeting we started to discuss topics for the community summit. A list of topics can be found below. The list of topics may change as we get nearer to the event.

How we improve the leadership of the TRT team? For example the forums team has one or two team reps and then moderators who have access to further moderations tools.
How can we encourage and enable more people to lead new projects?
What is the vision and goals of the team?
What is the future of the theme review team, can we change it to become the Theme Team and be more involved in theme related activities like improving the theme directory or the theme developers handbook?
A set of good slides on the introduction to theme reviewing that can be used for contributor days
Improving the documentation so that it is clearer and easier to understand
Work on improving the theme author and reviewer experience by analysing the whole theme review process.

Improving the review process and focus on quality and good codes
How we can encourage creative designs and how to stop more of copy themes which can just be child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/..
Future of the theme review theme and making it smoother and faster

Now the question is who should/can attend the community summit. Please post in the comments below if you can and would like to attend to the community summit. Not everyone can attend because of the size limit of the venue.

Current Projects

Mentoring program, lead by @thinkupthemes
FAQ page, lead by @thinkupthemes
Requirements refresh, lead by @poena
@nikeo is getting ready to restart the Review Flow project to improve the review experience for theme authors and reviewers.

If you have any topics, then please reply to this post and include the topic, along with a brief description of what you would like to discuss.

Emil Uzelac 7:32 pm on February 25, 2017

This should be great!
WPDevHQ 10:20 pm on February 25, 2017

I second the nominations for the representatives
acosmin 2:09 pm on February 26, 2017

Shouldn’t at least one of the representatives be a person which is in no way related with admin decision making. An author perhaps, someone who’s submitting themes regularly and knows how the queue works from the other side 🙂

I first saw matt’s comment on wptavern, on an article about Zerif Lite. Maybe the guys from themeisle would like to nominate one of their members. I feel like they could represent most of the theme authors.

Don’t get me wrong, but if 3 admins are nominated, they most likely have the same opinion on everything related to requirements & the theme directory.
- Ulrich 2:32 pm on February 26, 2017
  
  Both @greenshady and @poena submit themes, I submitted a theme last year to the repo.
  
  I think we may be connecting Matt’s comment on WP Tavern and his request to meet with three representatives when there is no direct connection.
  
  Personally, I try to not contradict other key reviewers as I think we need to consistent but it does not mean we have the same opinions.
  - Ionut Neagu 10:29 am on February 28, 2017
    
    I think that the list of representatives is good, however having somebody among the key reviewers with a different background/experience ( more product/marketing ) I think is a point that we can consider, is always better to look from both sides, what users really want and what we consider best for them, current rules or current tags aren’t really considering what people are searching/expecting from what I see.
    
    I was reading PostStatus newsletter and tavern comments and I think is helpful to try to keep things to the point, previewer is an issue, I agree, however while I was happy to fix the reading setting which was wrong, moving stuff from the theme in a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, it was a completely useless thing, not sure you, but I felt ashamed to ask the developers to spend their time breaking their code and copy pasting it, just to comply with a rule that isn’t making sense in this context.
    
    Also fixing demo data, unless we add support for plugins is useless, zerif in our case or shopisle, won’t look better unless previewer won’t have woocommerce + required plugins activated.
    - Carolina Nymark 5:25 pm on February 28, 2017
      
      I know we have mentioned having plugins installed before, but on the other hand, you can’t require plugins.
      I’ve asked Otto for an update but I think the work on previewer has stranded. We need a project lead and people willing to work on it.
      
      It is difficult if not impossible to get a real insight to what end-users want. So we should try to cater for as many types of themes as possible.
      
      The last time we changed the tags we had the most common search terms in mind.
Carolina Nymark 6:43 am on March 6, 2017

Oh and yes I will be in Paris.

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Agenda for 2017 February 28

Team Representatives

Community Summit 2017

Current Projects

WordPress.org

Welcome to the Themes team!

Handbooks and review requirements

Coding standards and plugins

Code Packages

Communication

Team Representatives

Community Summit 2017

Current Projects

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