The many thanks of the week

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

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

William Arthur Ward

This week we finally got our auto updates to begin. This is something that has been in the works for quite some time and let us not forget that it can be taken away just as quickly. We are truly placing a lot of trust in this update system so users can get updates and we as reviewers can focus more on teaching and learning from one another about themes.

Let us all rejoice and celebrate! We also have a several people to recognize this week and please don’t forget to say thank you for the hard work in reviewing themes:

@AbdulWahab610, @DenUsenko, @FelixdeJonge, @HannibalBector, @Kenshino, @KostasNi, @Litonice13, @Musilda, @Tearstone, @WEN-Solutions, @WPDevHQ, @acmethemes, @alicelee5535, @ashiquzzaman, @benlumia007, @bijayyadav, @blair-jersyer, @catchthemes, @cristiano.zanca, @cryptex_vinci, @djrmom, @fashblogger, @hardeepasrani, @hazephase, @hostmarks, @iamdmitrymayorov, @imon-Hasan, @ishulev, @jimmy.smutek, @joedolson, @juhise, @justingreerbbi, @k_mehdei, @kevinhaig, @kharisblank, @limestreet, @lyrathemes, @mandeep007, @monikarao, @optimistic_shekhar, @ozzyr, @phillip.nunes, @poena, @psdtohtmlguru, @rabmalin, @rmdiaconu, @rodicaelena, @rohallah, @shahadat16061993, @siobhyb, @smartcat, @sumeetsarna, @suvanno, @swadeshswain, @swetashrestha, @tadaimushi, @tahi1990, @themesmonk, @theonlypat, @utkarshpatel

This week we saw more than 60 active reviews being conducted! Let’s keep this up and together we can knock out all those themes in our queues.