Theme Review Chat Notes

Topic: Custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.

  • Discourage usage in favor of pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party
  • If used, must take security, permissions, escaping into account ( pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” somebody capable of doing such review )
  • Security is biggest concern
  • Need good examples of _doing_it_right_

Sub-topic: requirement examples

  • Add items to https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/explanations-and-examples
  • Encourage commenting but will have a weekly after meeting for examples

Next Week’s topic: Review Quality

  • Security
  • no-comment-approvals

Link to meeting in Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1422986425001223