Are you interested in joining the Theme Reviewers team? Great! The team is open to anyone who wants to help out, and the process is simple:
- Setup a WordPress test environment:
- Import the Theme Unit Test data.
- Set WP_DEBUG to ‘true’ in wp-config.
- Install the following Plugins:
- Theme Check
- Debug Bar
- Log Deprecated Notices
- Debogger
- Monster Widget
- WordPress Beta Tester
- Regenerate Thumbnails
- Note: these Plugins can all be installed via the Developer Plugin
- Set Up Theme-Trac Access
- Make sure you have a wordpress.org user account, and that you can log into the Theme-Trac site using your wordpress.org username and password.
- Login to the themes trac, and update your Theme-Trac user profile with a valid email address. This is important. If you don’t update your trac profile, you won’t get notifications of your reviews being accepted or not.
- Join the Theme Reviewers mail list.
- Go to the Trac Ticket Request Queue Page, and leave a comment asking to be assigned a Theme from the Theme Review Trac Queue. Be sure to include your wordpress.org username with your request, so that a ticket can be assigned to you.
- Perform a test review (see here for a guide for performing Theme reviews):
- Once you are assigned a Theme, using the SVN link in the Trac ticket, download the Theme files, and install/activate the Theme on your WordPress test environment.
- Review the Theme per the process, ensuring the Theme meets the criteria.
- Attach your Theme review notes, as well as a proposed resolution (“Approved” or “Not-Approved”) as a comment on the ticket.
- A Theme Reviewer will review your comments, and resolve/close the ticket.
- Once you have done enough Theme reviews to be comfortable with the process and guidelines, you will be added to the “Reviewers” group, which will enable you to assign and close tickets yourself.
dremeda 5:46 pm on April 14, 2011 Permalink
Hiya, the link in #3 is returning a 404
Edward Caissie 8:02 pm on April 15, 2011 Permalink
@dremeda – The link to the mailing list … its working fine for me.
Jason 11:42 pm on May 20, 2011 Permalink
I think dremeda meant step 3 on the Theme Unit Test Codex page.
Kevin Peyton 12:06 pm on April 15, 2011 Permalink
Hi guys,
hope that i might be able to help out on this.
Kevin
Edward Caissie 8:03 pm on April 15, 2011 Permalink
@Kevin – By all means … the more the merrier.
Paul 11:14 am on April 17, 2011 Permalink
Hi,
I sent an email to the list to request a theme to review but got a reply from theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org
I don’t know what that means – not really familiar with the process.
thanks
Paul
Edward Caissie 4:22 pm on April 17, 2011 Permalink
@Paul – You will need to subscribe to the mailing list first. Then it should not give you the bounce message.
Paul 8:13 pm on April 18, 2011 Permalink
Just signed up – Hope I can help.
Edward Caissie 12:34 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
@Paul – The more the merrier!
sharp 10:20 pm on April 19, 2011 Permalink
I subscribed to the theme-reviewers mailing list yesterday and today I got 20 mails in my box …How guys are you organized for reading all of this? Which reader are you using ?
Edward Caissie 12:35 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
@sharp – I use several GMail filters, it seems to work for me …
Karthik K 5:12 am on April 20, 2011 Permalink
I’m game! And just started setting up!
Gestion Propiedades 11:02 pm on April 20, 2011 Permalink
Guess that Reviewers team hava a Forum?
Edward Caissie 12:36 am on April 21, 2011 Permalink
@Gestion – The mailing-list and the IRC channel (#wordpress-themes) are the primary communication channels with most going through the mailing list.