We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.
We do license, security, and code quality reviews.
We help build and maintain default themes.
The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-based themes.
This weeks Block-based Themes meeting has been rescheduled to next week due to some scheduling conflicts. Instead, try out 5.9 Beta 1 which includes the first default blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme!
+make.wordpress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./ #agenda #meeting #block-based-meeting
A JSONJSONJSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. Schema for theme.json and one for block.json are now available to help with building blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. based themes. The schema can be used by code editors to provide things like tooltips, autocomplete, and validation while editing theme.json or block.json.
Visual Studio Code and WebStorm are two popular editors that support JSON Schema out of the box, and many other editors can have support added via plugins. Check the documentation for your favorite editor to see how to enable JSON schemas there. SchemaStore.org and JSON Schema have lists of supported editors if you want to try it out and your current editor doesn’t have support.
For Visual Studio Code, all you need to do is add "$schema": "https://schemas.wp.org/trunk/theme.json" to the beginning of your theme.json file.
Validation
Properties that are not a part of the schema will show up with undercurls to help catch typos and improperly nested properties.
Tooltips
Tooltips describe properties and include the version of WordPress that they were introduced.
Autocomplete
Autocomplete can make editing theme.json faster and lead to fewer errors.
Versioning
Older versions of the schema can be accessed by replacing trunk with the version of GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ that you’d like to use the schema for. For example https://schemas.wp.org/v11.9.0/theme.json for Gutenberg 11.9.0.
Contributing
The source for the theme.json schema can be found on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ at WordPress/gutenberg. Issues an pull requests to the contents of the schema can be made there.
Additionally, the schemas have been added to the SchemaStore catalog which is used by some editors to discover schemas. SchemaStore is not a part of WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, but issues and pull requests to update the catalog are welcome on GitHub at SchemaStore/schemastore.
Hello! This is the 74th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
As always, please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.
Active Issues / Discussions & PRs
DT: Font Size Picker: Remove hints and allow non-integers #36636
DT: Border panel: Update to display multiple palette origins #36753
DT: Hide border panel when all border features have been disabled #36791
DT: Gradients: Enable adding custom gradient when gradients are disabled #36900
DT: Users should be able to add a custom gradient when the default gradients are disabled #36640
DT: Border color: only shows a single palette #36641
DT: Keep blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. font-size and color adjustments when change block type #36745
DT: Preset colors from the default palette are serialized as inline styles #36770
DT: Enable transparency on elements by default #36774
DT: Highlight color palette only shows colors from the last source #36886
DT: Gradients: errors resulting from clearing or quickly selecting gradient colors in background color #36899
GS: Add: Transparency support on global styles colors #36840
GS: Fix CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. Custom Properties for presets in the site editor #36851
GS: Add filters to shortcircuit the public APIAPIAn API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. of global styles #36909
GS: Add nudge to include name for Custom Color Palette #36473
GS: Fix confusing ellipsis menu for the Custom Color Palette feature #36519
GS: Per Block list styles affect all list blocks #36539
GS: enable the ability to edit gradient & duotone palettes #36541
GS: Open the color picker to the left of the sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.#36542
GS: Post Title: Global Styles elements selector is not applied #36731
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Site Editor: Add global styles to export file #36619
FSE: Add client side routing for Site Editor #36488
FSE: 404 Error on a preloaded route when creating a new template part. #36438
FSE: Click to ->Editor (BetaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.) or ->Styles nothing happens #36482
FSE: Mark templates that are used for key pages #36612
FSE: Replace “Template Parts” list with area-based alternative #36613
FSE: Block Template creation is using empty content instead of the appropiate fallback #36648
FSE: Templates list screen – make the screen thinner and add truncation to site title. #36657
FSE: Templates WP left menu area – Do not close menu area when selecting Site or Styles #36659
FSE: Adding a shortcut to W icon to open and close the WP left menu area. #36660
FSE: Templates and Template Parts screens – add Published date. #36664
FSE: Templates list screen – Adding duplicate to 3 dot menu. #36665
FSE: product categoryCategoryThe 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. uses page.htmlHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. insted of index.html, archive.html or taxonomy.html #36771
FSE: Full Site Editing: Deleting block settings padding doesn’t reset value #36794
Themes: Revise folder structure on themes made with blocks #36548
Themes: The block_editor_settings_all filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. does not get applied everywhere #36595
Merged/Fixed/Announced/Closed
DT: Post Featured ImageFeatured imageA featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.: Move width and height controls into the Dimensions panel via SlotFill #36540
DT: Cover: move BoxControlVisualizer in the markup to make it visible #36635
GS: Add caching to WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg::get_user_data_from_custom_post_type() #36584
GS: GlobalStyles sidebar: do not show default palette if theme opts-out #36639
GS: Global Styles: rename coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. origin key to default for presets #36645
GS: Make user able to change all color palette origins #36674
GS: Add elements support to the typography panel in global styles #36718
GS: Update: Rename user preset origin to custom #36748
GS: Update function names for the public global styles API functions #36907
GS: Rename gutenberg_ to wp_ for some functions that land in WordPress 5.9 #36913
Themes: theme.jsonJSONJSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.: add appearanceTools flag to opt-in into appearance UIUIUI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. controls #36646
Themes: Update the block theme folders to templates and parts #36647
FSE: Post Comments LoopLoopThe Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. Block: Tracking issue #34994
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here.
In the past 7 days,
371 tickets were opened
364 tickets were closed:
358 tickets were made live.
32 new Themes were made live.
326 Theme updates were made live.
0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
6 tickets were not-approved.
0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Number of reviewers: 2
2. Voting for themes team representative
There was engaging conversation during the theme reps election. The themes review team decided to have three reps. New themes review team reps are @kafleg,@acosmin, and @Benachi. Thank you to everyone who voted.
We are grateful for this opportunity. We would like to continue with the great work that the previous theme reps had built. We look forward to working with everyone!
3. Open floor
There was a suggestion to limit the number of theme releases per week. It could help increase the exposure for newly approved themes however, there is a concern about the increasing number of themes in the review queue.
[State of the WordState of the WordThis is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. 2021] State of the Word will be live-streamed from NYC on Dec 14, 2021, starting from 5 PM EST!
[WordPress 5.9 new released date] The new release date is set for Jan 25, 2022. You can also keep track of the WordPress 5.9 Development Cycle.
[New TagTagTag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. for FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks. themes] Great discussion on whether to keep the FSE themes among the classic themes or create a new tag dedicate to FSE themes. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
[New Default theme – Twenty Twenty Two] The new default theme Twenty Twenty Two is getting ready for the new release. Testing is always appreciated.
The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and you need an account to participate.
Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.
We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend.
On October 27, the themes team published a post for the nomination call for the themes team representative. We got 5 nominations for @kafleg, @poena, @acosmin, @williampatton, and @utz119.
@poena and @williampatton are not ready for becoming themes team representatives this time. So, @kafleg, @acosmin, and @utz119 are left. During the nomination call we mentioned, Based on the nominations, 2 themes team representatives will be elected. So, we still have 1 more name from the nomination.
So, we would like to decide on this during today’s meeting. Let us know in the comment section below if you have some special nominations.
Open floor
We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.
Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.
