Theme review team weekly notes The logs are…

Welcome to the Themes team!

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 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.-based themes.

If this sounds interesting, read more about the team here. Check out our guide for new reviewers and the frequently asked questions.

Handbooks and review requirements

The team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data, and helps the documentation team with the Theme Developer Handbook.

Coding standards and plugins

We maintain the WPThemeReview Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer, the Theme Sniffer plugin and Theme Check

Code Packages

We have code packages for themes available for use on GitHub and Packagist

Communication

Meet us in the #themes SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.

Meetings:

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 15:00 UTC.

#themereview

Theme review team weekly notes

The logs are here:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1420567275004160

Notes:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30770 needs to make sure we are all on the same page and help with it.

We talked about removing the trainee reviewer role. If nobody objects this would be good to do. Please add a comment if an issue with this.

Lets try and put the handbook on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/ as an experiment with a clear workflow outlined. We’ll review this in a month.

We have a handful of people mentoring. They are awesome, but they are also awesome with a lot of people mentoring. Simply put, we need more people to scale this mentoring program. Now if you’re not ready, that’s totally fine. But, if you are a longer standing reviewer (+6 months), maybe considering mentoring would be awesome.

Here’s to a great new year reviewing!