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New Block-Focused Theme Handbook Docs and What’s Coming in 2024
I hope everyone had a good break over the holidays. I know I caught up on some much-needed rest and am now excited to get back into the swing of doing fun things with WordPress themes. Now it’s time to discuss the current progress and next steps of one of our biggest projects of 2024:…
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Theme Handbook Overhaul: Phase 3 (Publishing Content)
In April 2023, there was a proposal for overhauling the Theme Handbook, which included an initial outline of what a new handbook might look like. After two public meetings to fine-tune the details of the outline and discuss the project, we moved on to Phase 2. This phase meant writing the new content for the…
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New directory names for block-based (FSE) themes
TL;DR: As of the currently available WordPress 5.9 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur…
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WPThemeReview input/decision needed issues
One of the thing that helps theme reviewers and theme authors check and write better code is having automatic checks in place that will warn them if the code they wrote is compliant with Theme Review Team rules. This is why we are working on WPThemeReview coding standards. But this ruleset is not finished and…
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Rough draft: Upsell/Affiliate/Sponsorship guidelines
After talking with the team leads, I was asked to publish an outline of ideas to consider for guidelines. These are being posted here for feedback from the entire community. Nothing is set in stone. The below and any comments will be discussed in the next team meeting. Now is the time to share your…
