Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda for February 19

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.

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Agenda

Welcome

Status updates for 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 Theme efforts in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/:

Global Styles update
New blocks for full-site editing

Show & Tell: Block styling with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. variables in the Go theme (@richtabor)

Questions & Discussion

If you have any questions you’d like to see raised at this week’s meeting, or any topics or demos you’d like to see in future meetings, please share below.

We also need a volunteer to take notes!

Joy 3:11 pm on February 17, 2020

The title says Feb 17, the time says Feb 19.
Can you pick one?
- dingo-d 3:12 pm on February 17, 2020
  
  Fixed 😀 Thanks!
  - Kjell Reigstad 5:44 pm on February 17, 2020
    
    Whoops, Thanks for noticing + for the fix! 😄
Eileen Violini 10:39 am on February 19, 2020

I can take notes @kjellr
- Kjell Reigstad 1:20 pm on February 19, 2020
  
  Thank you! 🙌
Kjell Reigstad 1:22 pm on February 19, 2020

Before the Q&A period, @aristath is also going to share some information about this recent post:

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2020/02/19/a-plan-to-ease-transition-to-block-based-themes/