Weekly Meeting Agenda – 22/3/2016 – Make WordPress Themes

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

The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend.

This weeks meeting is detailed below……..come and help us out 🙂

Channel: themereview | Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | Time: 18:00 UTC

Topic : Additional Automated Theme Checks

@grapplerulrich will present the small improvements to the requirements and discuss the plans for more automated checking of the requirements.

The meetings typically last 30 minutes. If time permits, additional topics may be discussed.

If you have any topics, then please reply to this post and include the topic, along with a brief description of what you would like to discuss.

Maria Antonietta Perna 5:07 pm on March 17, 2016

Thanks @kevinhaig, it sounds great!
Carolina Nymark 12:20 am on March 18, 2016

Here is a link to theme check and the current open issues: https://github.com/Otto42/theme-check
kevinhaig 12:42 am on March 18, 2016

Possible Topic : Text Domains
1) Is it required to use the WordPress approved theme slug?
2) The existing requirement allows the author to have two text domains if a framework is used. Is this still OK or should it be changed to only one text domain, the WordPress approved theme slug?

I am seeing this being handled differently in 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/.. For the sake of our Authors I think it is important that all reviewers and admins treat the requirements consistently.
- Carolina Nymark 4:00 am on March 28, 2016
  
  Did you discuss this and if so, what was the outcome?
honda bogor 4:46 pm on March 19, 2016

Thanks for the information, good running a good meeting agenda, we are waiting for the results of the meeting are this good, success is always for us all.

Welcome to the Themes team!

Handbooks and review requirements

Coding standards and plugins

Code Packages

Communication

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