Getting Started at a Contributor Day
Welcome to theme reviews. This section is intended guide you through what it is to be a theme reviewer and into your first review. If you need any help at any time you can always ask the contribution day lead or organiser and you always find it on Slack at #themereview.
This page is a work in progress. Don’t be afraid to amend the document or leave comments, particularly if you’re at a contributor day and find that we’ve missed something.
We are the humans that check every theme that goes onto the WordPress.org theme repo.
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You can find out more about the team here and meet the members here.
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Having your theme in the WordPress.org repo is desirable, so there is always a need for reviewers. Humans can catch things machines can’t, that is simply why we need people to become theme reviewers.
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There are many reasons it’s important to get involved in theme reviewing. If you are a themer it raises your game, it helps you improve your skills and lets you get exposure to a lot of code. It also keeps alive the valuable resource of the free theme repo. Without the theme review team, the repo wouldn’t be a place people could go to download themes. Quite simply, we keep it alive.
Being a theme reviewer is a win-win situation. You get to give back, but you also get to improve your own skills and learn how to create themes correctly.
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We review themes. Every theme that gets uploaded has a theme reviewer assigned and we run it through a series of tests. These tests fall into 2 sections:
- Required: No theme is able to go onto the theme repo until it has met all these requirements.
- Recommended: These are best practices but will not prevent a theme from going into the repo.
We also encourage reviewers to add notes about design and other not recommended items.
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As a team we have a few ways we keep in touch.
- We use Slack and our channel is #themereview. You can find out more about Slack here.
- We have a weekly meeting on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in #themereview on Slack.
- We use this blog for all our updates and frequently post articles there. We advise all new members to subscribe to this blog.
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You do not need any previous experience to become a theme reviewer. We simply ask you have a willingness to learn. There are a few skills we always encourage people to work on though as that makes your reviewing easier:
- The ability to test.
- Theme structure knowledge.
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript and basic PHP skills.
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We are building our resources out and you can find them here.
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Becoming a theme reviewer is easy! You can simply follow the steps here.
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Becoming a theme reviewer.
