Themes team meeting notes for May 13, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: May 13, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 915 tickets were opened
  • 920 tickets were closed
  • 903 tickets were made live.
  • 34 new Themes were made live.
  • 869 Theme updates were made live.
  • 6 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 16 tickets were not approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the themes this week. 

In the last 7 days, 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. themes stats:

  • 12 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 17 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

2. Trademark in the Theme Name

During the meeting, we talked about using registered trademarks on theme names. But, we were not able to decide in this particular agenda. @williampatton said, “This one probably needs to go out in a post and seek some wider opinions.” William will write a post in the Make Themes blog to collect wider opinions. It will also give chance to participate in this discussion and later in the upcoming meeting, we will finalize it.

Almost all of the attendees were agreed not to have Trademark in the theme name.

3. Not relevant Theme URI

We have guidelines for theme URI and author URI, but these days theme authors make a loophole in those guidelines. @acosmin said, “As long as it doesn’t contain information about the free theme that is hosted on wp.org it isn’t allowed”. @kafleg said, “Reviewers need to check theme URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org properly and if there is something wrong smell, you either consult with others before approving it. We might give a look and decide”. We all agreed on this during the meeting.

4. Open Floor

We didn’t have anything during the open floor.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Agendas for May 13, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 13 May.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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 you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Trademark in Theme name
  3. Not relevant Theme URI
  4. Open Floor 

1. Weekly Updates

In this agenda, we’ll share the weekly updates of the themes team, like how many themes are live, closed, rejected, etc.

2. Trademark in Theme name

Theme authors submitted themes by using the popular brand name which the trademark restricted. We need to discuss and finalize the trademark name used on the theme.

3. Not relevant Theme URI

As we have guidelines for theme URI, theme authors are using non-relevant Theme URLs just using keywords for ranking purposes. During the meeting, we’ll show some examples and also decide about this.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, you can ask or share about themes-related discussions. If you have anything, you can wait for the open floor.

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Agendas for April 22, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 22 April.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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 you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Open Floor 

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Themes team meeting notes for March 25, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: March 25, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 943 tickets were opened
  • 946 tickets were closed
    • 925 tickets were made live.
      • 46 new Themes were made live.
      • 879 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 21 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: 7 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif@kristynabennett)

ii)  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. Theme Stats

  • 13 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 14 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

More information on weekly updates is here.

2. 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. Nepal 2025 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/.

WordCamp Nepal is happening on April 4 & 5. If you are attending, join the themes table. @bijayyadav is leading the table you can learn about block themes, community themes, theme guidelines, and more.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @wphood asked, “I wanted to know if we have a consensus on using AI-generated images in theme screenshots. These are images generated ‘Fully’ in AI from scratch using just a text prompt – Not derivative work from any other licensed image”. @kafleg shared meeting notes where AI image requirement conditions are described.

My realisation is we need to discuss this and make a requirement.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes Team Meeting Agendas for March 25, 2025

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 25 March.

Meeting Details:

(You need WordPress 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 you need an account to participate. View here how to make a WordPress Slack account.)

Alongside the scheduled agendas, we dedicate time at the end of each meeting for an open floor session, where you are invited to ask questions or share any themes-related updates.

We strongly encourage all members and anyone interested in the themes to join in. If there are specific topics you’d like to see included in the agenda, please don’t hesitate to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  1. Weekly updates
  2. 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. Nepal 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/.
  3. Open Floor 

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team