The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.
Attendees:
- @bijayyadav
- @nejwrks
- @ohidul
- @rinkuyadav999
- @greenshady
- @fahimmurshed
1. Weekly updates
In the past 7 days,
- 661 tickets were opened
- 678 tickets were closed
- 663 tickets were made live.
- 54 new Themes were made live.
- 609 Theme updates were made live.
- 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 15 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.
Thank you @acosmin, @vowelweb, @fahimmurshed, @rinkuyadav999 for reviewing themes this week.
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:
- 17 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days.
- We’ve 902 block themes in the repository now.
I would like to request everyone to learn block themes development and submit in org. With the use of Create Block theme 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, it is super easy.
2. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development
New default theme Twenty Twenty-Five which is going to be included in WordPress 6.7 is under development. Theme development is lead by @poena and @juanfra.
If you are not sure how to get started contributing, you can read the information in the Github GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo and try it. Otherwise, you can also join #core-themes channel and ask questions.
You can contribute by the following ways,
- Testing PRs
- Finding Bugs/Issues
- Make Patterns or Templates, etc
You can go with the issues and read them and see if you can help. Or you can help by testing PR. (the easiest one to contribute).
@kafleg said that if anyone needs help, you can ping The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” him.
3. Community themes development
To keep learning and making more block themes, we also have community themes initiative. You can also be a part of it and contribute. Themes developed from this will be submitted in WordPress.org and will be available for everyone.
Like TT5 theme, you can also contribute in the similar approach.
There was nothing to discuss in the open floor.
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