Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on July 26, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.
- 412 tickets were opened
- 416 tickets were closed:
- 404 tickets were made live.
- 31 new Themes were made live.
- 373 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
- 12 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.
Number of reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @uxl, @shivashankerbhatta)
Block 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. Themes Stats
- 8 Block themes are live in past 7 days
- 3 Block themes are currently reviewing
- We have 106 Block Themes in the themes repository.
2. Pattern Previews for Themes in the Directory
Brand new pattern preview has been added on the theme directory! Users can check out the patterns before downloading the themes. Both classic and block themes can showcase the patterns on the theme directory.
There are several discussions for improving the pattern preview. Any feedback are appreciated.
3. Open Floor
@joyously suggested removing themes that cause a fatal error and are no longer compatible. The theme review team will coordinate with the meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team on the following points.
- Find all the themes with the errors
- Send bulk message to them to fix the errors
- Give 1 month time to fix them
- Check themes again after 1 month
- Delist the theme with errors
We discussed the Requires at least requirement. The Requires at least is required in the Stylesheet header The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes., however it is unclear if a theme need to be compatible 2-3 versions back at the time of initial release or when the theme was updated.
We also discussed how hosting Google Fonts locally affect the theme requirements. You can read the whole thread here.
Thank you for participating @colorful-tones @mikachan @poena and @joyously
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