Emil Uzelac 9:52 pm on February 7, 2015
Tags:   

New TRT Admin: Ulrich Pogson

Welcome Ulrich Pogson (@grapplerulrich ) to Team Review Admins!

Ulrich started with WordPress back in 2011. He is a student, sportsman and WordPress developer with interests in responsive design and internationalization and that is not all: he is also Meetup Bern organizer and WordCamp Switzerland co-organizer.

Thank you for your dedication Ulrich.

#3-1

KafleG 2:14 am on February 26, 2024
Tags: ,   

Themes team meeting agenda for February 27, 2024

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting for this month is scheduled for February 27.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on 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.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time at the end for an open floor session where you are welcome to ask questions or share any themes-related information.

We highly encourage all members, as well as anyone with an interest, to participate. If you have specific agenda items you would like to include, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • 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 2024 Contributor Day
  • Contributor Mentorship program and community themes
  • WordPress 6.5, Font Library, and implementation in the themes
  • Theme test data especially for 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. testing.
  • Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

Birgit Pauli-Haack 6:19 pm on January 30, 2024
Tags: fse-outreach-experiments   

Hallway Hangout: Intrinsic Design

Join contributors on February 8th at 15:00 UTC to discuss solving design problems using Intrinsic design and discuss ways to solve adjacent problems, where more granular controls and tools are needed. 

Meet agency developers and designers and discuss informally the in and outs of creating layouts with intrinsic design and beyond. 

Some potential topics of discussion will include:

  • What “intrinsic” design is.
  • How intrinsic design compares to responsive design and where they overlap.
  • Designing at the atomic (i.e., 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.) level for the modern web.
  • Alternatives to responsive design controls that you can use to solve today’s issues.
  • Common use cases that are not well handed by the current design tools.
  • Existing or upcoming CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. features that would make laying out a page easier.
  • Fluid font sizing and fluid spacing.
  • Grid layout support has been available since WordPress 6.3 and how to enable it.

The Zoom link will be shared in the #fse-outreach-experiments channel. The session will be recorded and the link to the recording shared in a comment of this post.

To learn more about intrinsic design, read the developer blog article on Intrinsic design, theming, and rethinking how to design with WordPress. 

Props to @greenshady for co-authoring this invitation.

KafleG 5:43 am on January 24, 2024
Tags: , ,   

Themes Team Meeting Notes – January 23, 2024

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

:one: Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 688 tickets were opened
  • 715 tickets were closed
    • 701 tickets were made live.
      • 55 new Themes were made live.
      • 646 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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: 4 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb)

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

17 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 is live in the last 7 days.

:two: Allow larger theme authors to submit multiple themes

This discussion was started based on the meta ticket created by @iamtakashi.

After the discussion, we concluded that the best action is to message the team reps about multiple submissions. Then, themes team reps will handle those on a case-by-case basis.

:three: New requirements for settings pages & onboarding in themes

@Travel_girl created this ticket in metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.. The ticket was just to share the update of what she is doing. But during the meeting, we also discussed how we can effectively treat 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 themes.

@greenshady said, “A11yAccessibility 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)(Accessibility) has always been an issue because of the lack of reviewers doing a11y-specific reviews. We used to have a couple of reviewers specifically for that tag. The best way to help in this area is to get involved in the review process, I think. Unless there are some automated tools that we could look into.”

And I requested everyone to report the themes that are not A11y ready but have accessibility-ready tag.

:four: Provide information about committing theme updates directly to SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/.

@dufresnesteven created this meta ticket.

@greenshady asked, “Should we tackle this in the Theme Handbook or the Make Themes Handbook?”. I said, ” It can be in the Make themes handbook. The theme handbook is for general and this process is for theme authors only.” And Justin agreed on it.

Also, the meta team is looking for this ticket and we’ll soon confirm the text and update the email template.

:five: Open floor

The updated Advanced Topics chapter for the Theme Handbook is nearly ready. I plan to start moving the docs over to DotOrg as post drafts today: https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/1416

If you are attending WCAsia in Taipei and want to lead the themes table or patterns table, do let me know. We are looking for 1 table lead for themes and 2 table leads for patterns.

#meeting, #meeting-notes, #themes-team

acosmin 2:05 pm on December 13, 2023  

New requirements for settings pages & onboarding in themes

As discussed in our last meeting, we’d like to hear your thoughts on what should or shouldn’t be allowed when developing settings pages or onboarding processes in WordPress themes.

We’ve brainstormed a list of requirements, but we’d really value your input on this:

Admin notice / Theme activation

Themes must use the admin_notices hook to provide any custom messages to the user. These admin notices must either be a one-time message or permanently dismissible. This notice can be used to link to a settings page or start an onboarding process, for example. Popups are not allowed upon theme activation.

Admin page

Themes may optionally add custom sub-pages under Appearance in the WordPress admin. 

They should only contain coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. WordPress UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. elements and generally match the WordPress admin design.

If necessary, themes can include custom styles or scripts for their admin pages, but they cannot leak/spill out to other WordPress admin pages. Enqueue styles/scripts on the admin_enqueue_scripts hook and use $hook_suffix parameter to determine the page.

For ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-based admin pages, make use of Core components for features if they are available.

Additionally, themes must reference the correct user role capabilities when performing any action inside of the WordPress admin. They must also use an appropriate capability selector or function, such as canUser or current_user_can().

Inserting posts/pages via wp_insert|update_post() can be used if the action is done with user consent.

Options

Themes must use the Settings and Options APIs when storing custom settings in the database. 

Themes must also only add a single database option, which should be an array when storing multiple settings. This option must also be prefixed with the theme slug.

Themes may optionally custom core WordPress options that only affect the front-end and how the website displays (e.g., site logo, front page settings), as long as the user is notified that their saved options will be modified. User consent is required.

All data passed to add_option(), update_option(), or other functions for saving to the database must be validated and/or sanitized with the correct function or method for the data type.

Not allowed

The following features are not allowed as part of an admin menu or onboarding process:

  • Demo imports
  • External calls
  • Tracking/Affiliate links

As an example, you can check the Ollie Dash plugin. Based on a first review, we would not allow the child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. and updater functionality.

Our goal is to put these requirements into action starting from the first month of next year, immediately following our upcoming meeting on January 9, 2024. Meanwhile, we’d appreciate it if you could share your opinions.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday and a joyful New Year! 🙂