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Themes team meeting agenda for February 11, 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 11 February.

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 January 28, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: January 28, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @bijayyadav
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 779 tickets were opened
  • 799 tickets were closed
    • 777 tickets were made live.
      • 41 new Themes were made live.
      • 736 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 22 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: 6 (@acosmin@kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb@bijayyadav@ammarsaif)

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 status:

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

Currently, we have 53 themes under review. 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. Asia 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 Asia Contributor Day is happening on 20 Feb 2025 at PICC, Manila Philippines. @kafleg and @bijayyadav will be there leading the table. If you want to learn theme guidelines, start reviewing themes, contribute in community themes development and other areas of the themes team, join there.

You can see detailed information about Contributor Day here. We would like to see you there.

3. Community themes development

We have an initiative for community theme development, and you can also be a part of it. You can either contribute design of themes and help develop or test them. You can also review the theme’s code and make it ready for submission on WordPress.org. This is also considered as contributing to the themes team.

Recently a theme named Darken is under development and the design was submitted by @amitbajracharya and currently developing by @bijayyadav. Thank you for your contribution.

There are some PRs to review, you can also help by reviewing them. If you attend the themes table in WordCamp Asia contributor day, we’ll also discuss this more. So don’t miss the opportunity.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @dballari asked a question about the accessibilityAccessibility 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)-ready tag in his theme. @shivashankerbhatta is interested in helping him with that.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes team meeting agenda for January 28, 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 28, January.

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. Asia 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/.
  3. Community themes development
  4. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2025


A few weeks ago, we opened a request for individuals interested in becoming team representatives to submit their nominations. Users could nominate themselves or tag someone they believed would be well-suited for the position.

The post generated numerous comments containing nominations, many of which mentioned the names of the 2024 team reps. After consulting with some of the previous and current team reps, we decided to continue with the current team reps. If anyone else wants to take ownership of anything specific, please message the channel and discuss it.

More help is always very welcomed. The more help the reps have, the more they can achieve.

Join me in congratulating them and expressing our best wishes for a successful tenure.

  1. Acosmin (@acosmin)
  2. Ganga Kafle (@kafleg)
  3. Shiva Shanker Bhatta (@shivashankerbhatta)

Acosmin

Acosmin is a WordPress developer and enthusiast. He published his first WP theme back in 2008, and since then, he has contributed in various capacities as a reviewer, developer, and team representative.

Extend Themes sponsors him to be a part-time reviewer.

You can reach him directly via 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/.; his username is acosmin.

Ganga Kafle

Ganga Kafle (KafleG)

Ganga is a full-time sponsored WordPress contributor by Rank Math. He is from the beautiful country of Nepal and has been working as a WordPress contributor since 2012. He has attended many WordCamps and organized some as well. Besides WordPress, he loves to spend time with friends and family.

He is also one of the organizers for 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. Asia 2025 and moderates WordPress-related Podcasts in Go With WP.

You can reach him directly via WordPress Slack; the username is kafleg.

Shiva Shanker Bhatta

shivashankerbhatta

Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the founder/CEO of AF Themes. He has over 10 years of experience in WordPress, including community, contributions, and development, focused on WordPress themes and plugins.

He had contributed (Organized/Contributors Day Lead) various National and International WordCamps.

You can reach him directly via WordPress Slack. His Slack username is shivashankerbhatta.

Thank you for taking on the responsibilities and keeping the tasks and team moving well.

#themes-team