Meeting notes for December 8

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

Weekly updates:

In the past 7 days,

– 237 tickets were opened

– 242 tickets were closed:

– 220 tickets were made live.

– 13 new Themes were made live.

– 207 Theme updates were made live.

– 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.

– 22 tickets were not-approved.

– 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Resolution process for issues found in live themes

It was requested that we include a clarification for when a theme is suspended temporarily, and when a theme is suspended permanently.

The request for feedback was open between November 19 and December 7. During this time, there was one comment asking if the consequences were strict or severe enough, but no suggestion for how the process could be improved was included.

Based on the result of the discussion we will continue with implementing the proposal.

The next step is to publish a page with all the information about the resolution process.