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.
Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on May 24, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.
378 tickets were opened
388 tickets were closed:
371 tickets were made live.
31 new Themes were made live.
340 Theme updates were made live.
1 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
17 tickets were not-approved.
0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Number of reviewers: 4 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. Themes: 4 block themes are released.
2. WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2022
WordCamp Europe 2022 is fast approaching. Our themes team representative @kafleg will be joining virtually, welcoming new contributors. In addition, some of the former representatives will be in Porto. If you are interested in becoming a theme reviewer, please let us know by commenting below.
The contributor will be held on the first day, June 2, 2022. You can find the schedule here.
Registration is required to attend WordCamp Europe in person. Tickets are still available. Learn more about WordCamp Europe or get your tickets here at this link.
3. WordPress 6.0 release
WordPress 6.0 is scheduled to be released on 24th May 2022. Theme authors are strongly encouraged to test the themes.
4. Open Floor
We discussed how the contributors can record their time contributing for the Five for the Future (5ftF) program. Please leave a comment if you like to give feedback here or on Github.
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. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.
Meeting agenda
Weekly Updates
WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe – Contribute in Themes Team
If you have not decided which team you want to join and contribute, then themes team is fully prepared to welcome you. One of our themes team representative(@kafleg) will be joining virtually to guide you. Some of the former representatives of themes team will be there physically. If you want to meet them, comment below. We’ll help to connect with them.
By joining themes team, you’ll get idea about,
How to submit themes, how themes trac works, how to review themes, etc.
You’ll get idea about 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/ themes requirement guidelines.
We’ll share some idea about 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(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).
Themes team will listen your ideas on how to make themes repository even better.
If you want to know/learn anything different, please comment us below. We’ll reach out to you personally as well.
Contributors Day Schedule
9:00 – 10:00
Registration and coffee/tea
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome and introduction of teams and table leads
10:30 – 12:30
Start contributing
10:30 – 11:00
Getting Started workshop for first time contributors
Registration is mandatory to join the Contributors day. If you are attending and haven’t registered yet, please register now.
There are also so many interesting session in WordCamp europe. Build your first block theme will be one of the best workshops to join. Check here for all the talks and workshops.
3. WordPress 6.0 release
The final release is scheduled for today 24th May 2022. The theme authors are strongly encouraged to test the themes.
Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on May 10, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.
310 tickets were opened
301 tickets were closed:
289 tickets were made live.
13 new Themes were made live.
276 Theme updates were made live.
1 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
12 tickets were not-approved.
0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Number of reviewers: 3
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. Themes: 2block themes are under review.
2. WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2022
WordCamp Europe 2022 will kick off on June 2, 2022. During the 3 day event, the contributor dayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. will be taking place on the first day June 2. Contributor Day is for everyone. All skills and levels of experience are welcome and needed. If you are interested in participating, please register here.
3. Open Floor
No questions or comments related to the theme review were brought up during the open floor.
@milana_cap has a great write-up summarizing the changes and enhancements included in the release candidateRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 1. Learn more at this link.
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. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.
Meeting agenda
Weekly Updates
WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2022
As you all know that WordCamp Europe 2022 is very near. It is a 3-day event. The first day of the event will be contributors day. It is designated for contributing to WordPress.
There are various areas or teams where you can contribute. Among them, you can also join the themes team and contribute. Based on your interest in contribution, we can plan and contribute to themes. If you are attending and haven’t registered yet, please register now.
If you have any questions, please comment below or attend the meeting and ask questions.
Also, if you are attending and already planned to join the themes table, please do comment below so that we can plan.
3. 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.
