The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.
Attendees:
- @richtabor
- @bijayyadav
- @lamarajan
- @shivashankerbhatta
- @aslamnaik
- @bijayyadav
- @greenshady
1. Weekly updates
In the past 7 days,
- 748 tickets were opened
- 747 tickets were closed
- 738 tickets were made live.
- 35 new Themes were made live.
- 703 Theme updates were made live.
- 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 9 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.
Number of reviewers: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @rinkuyadav999)
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:
- 18 Block themes are currently being reviewed
- 13 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days
2. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development
So far we’ve 49 contributors who already contributed and they will be counted as a core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor in WP 6.7 release. This is a good and easy way to contribute to WordPress core. You can even contribute by testing the PRs or finding the bug in the theme.
If you need any idea, you can always use #core-themes channel and ask your queries there. During the meeting @kafleg said, “It’s not about contributing only, it’s a great chance to learn building block themes with experienced block theme developers.”
3. Testing Theme Check Plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party PRs
Themes team is looking for helping hand to test the PRs that we’ve in the Theme Check plugin.
If you are block theme developer or want to create block theme, you need to know how to add skip links or how to test skip link requirement.
Thank you @onemaggie for creating PR for skip links in the block theme. Anyone can test this PR on your themes or other’s block theme as well.
4. Open Floor
During the open floor, @greenshady shared a quick note about Accessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) chapter in the theme handbook. If you are interested, check here, https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/816
Thank you @lamarajan for your interest. @joedolson said, Accessibility Team is currently in the process of revising the accessibility-ready requirements and process and having goal to finish in November. @alh0319 is also interested helping for this task.
@richtabor was also curious if anyone’s explored adding text styles to themes. Justin said, “I add block style variations for consistent text styles.”
#meeting-notes, #themes-team
