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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 #themereview 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

This week’s meeting

We had a meeting this week at 18:00 UTC in #themereview. Here are the archives: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1431453803000795

We talked about a range of things. There was no set agenda but these things came up:

How hard it is to say what custom content should be in a theme and what a 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.

The Rest API came up. As with all new things there is a lot of excitement – which is great. Right now, it’s about experimenting. There is no right or wrong way. There is no theme to use or not use. If you are interested and want to start experimenting, check out http://themeshaper.com/2015/05/07/theming-with-the-rest-api-meet-picard/. For now, it’s all about having fun with the format. Fork themes and play!

There was a mention of the PR for _s of the readme.txt file by @jami0821. This is was merged today.