The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

• Date: January 28, 2024
• Time: 15:00 UTC
• Location: #themes channel
• Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
• Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
• Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
• Notes taker – @bijayyadav
• Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting. 

• @bijayyadav
• @leogopal
• @productiveminds
• @dballari
• @zeelthakkar
• @aslamnaik
• @shivashankerbhatta
• @areziaal

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

• 779 tickets were opened
• 799 tickets were closed
  • 777 tickets were made live.
    • 41 new Themes were made live.
    • 736 Theme updates were made live.
    • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 22 tickets were not approved.
  • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @bijayyadav, @ammarsaif)

BlockBlock Block 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 status:

• 15 Block themes are currently being reviewed
• 13 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

Currently, we have 53 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

2. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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. Asia 2025 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor 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/.

WordCamp Asia Contributor Day is happening on 20 Feb 2025 at PICC, Manila Philippines. @kafleg and @bijayyadav will be there leading the table. If you want to learn theme guidelines, start reviewing themes, contribute in community themes development and other areas of the themes team, join there.

You can see detailed information about Contributor Day here. We would like to see you there.

3. Community themes development

We have an initiative for community theme development, and you can also be a part of it. You can either contribute design of themes and help develop or test them. You can also review the theme’s code and make it ready for submission on WordPress.org. This is also considered as contributing to the themes team.

Recently a theme named Darken is under development and the design was submitted by @amitbajracharya and currently developing by @bijayyadav. Thank you for your contribution.

There are some PRs to review, you can also help by reviewing them. If you attend the themes table in WordCamp Asia contributor day, we’ll also discuss this more. So don’t miss the opportunity.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @dballari asked a question about the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-ready tag in his theme. @shivashankerbhatta is interested in helping him with that.

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