KafleG 8:20 am on May 21, 2024  

WordCamp Europe 2024: Theme’s team table on contributor day

With WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe approaching, it’s time to get ready for contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.! Hope you all are excited.

The themes team has multiple areas of focus that contributors can help with:

  1. We will be working on building Community Themes. We welcome help with design, code, or reviews of the current in-progress themes. You can check some of the themes we have already published to the repository, like Blue Note and Stacks that are available in the WordPress themes repository.
  2. We will be discussing the theme review process, requirement guidelines, etc.
  3. On top of all that, we will also be working on maintenance and updates to the default themes that were needed.
  4. If you want to know about patterns directory, guidelines, and the process of creating and submitting it. Join us.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, we would be thrilled to have you join us at the Themes table.

Prerequisite for joining themes table

  • You should have a WordPress.org account. If you don’t have one, create one.
  • Create an account in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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/. and join the #themereview channel.
  • A GitHub account is necessary.
  • Don’t forget to bring your laptop and adaptor.

See you in Torino, Italy on June 13-15!

This post is co-written by @onemaggie.