KafleG 1:29 am on July 10, 2023
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Themes team meeting agenda for July 11, 2023

The themes team convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The second meeting for this month is scheduled for July 11.

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, July 11, 2023, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time in 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

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. WCUS Contributor Day

@poena asked in the #themereview channel what we are supposed to do on WCUS Contributor Day. Let’s plan what we are going to do on the WCUS contributor day.

3. Open floor

During the meeting, we will cover a comprehensive range of topics related to themes. All attendees are encouraged to ask questions or share any theme-related matters they have.

If you have something specific you’d like to bring up during the open floor session, please feel free to comment in the designated comment box below.

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

KafleG 3:17 am on June 28, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – June 27, 2023

Howdy Mates! :wave:

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 512 tickets were opened
  • 510 tickets were closed
    • 501 tickets were made live.
      • 43 new Themes were made live.
      • 458 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 9 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 13 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 are currently reviewing

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @fahimmurshed)

2. Review theme handbook drafts

You can find the progress link at: https://github.com/WordPress/create-block-theme/issues

We have a few drafts ready for review.

You can see the outline and the status of the draft writing here.

Help us to review it or write it or both.

Thank you @greenshady for your hard work. The writing is really nice and precise.

3. Open Floor:

There was nothing to discuss officially and the meeting attendees were only 3. So, we closed the meeting quick.

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

KafleG 4:34 am on June 26, 2023
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Themes team meeting agenda for June 27, 2023

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

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, June 27, 2023, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the predetermined agendas, we allocate time in 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
  • Review theme handbook drafts
  • Open Floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

2. Review theme handbook drafts

We have a few drafts ready for review.

You can see the outline and the status of the draft writing here.

3. Open floor

During the meeting, we will cover a comprehensive range of topics related to themes. All attendees are encouraged to ask questions or share any theme-related matters they have.

If you have something specific you’d like to bring up during the open floor session, please feel free to comment in the designated comment box below.

#agenda, #meeting, #themes-team

KafleG 1:55 am on June 20, 2023
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Nick Diego 12:54 pm on June 16, 2023
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Summary: Let’s chat about WordPress 6.3 and block theming

On June 15, 2023, a Hallway Hangout was held to discuss the WordPress 6.3 roadmap, the major changes coming in the next release, and how they will impact building 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 and managing themes from within the Site Editor. 42 community members attended, including the facilitator @ndiego. 

The meeting was recorded live over Zoom and is now available on WordPress TV:


The meeting began with introductions and a review of the 6.3 timeline and current roadmap, as well as the latest call for testing. The following resources were shared:

@ndiego then provided a demonstration of the major changes coming in 6.3, including the content editing flows in the Site Editor, the new Library, changes to the Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop block, dimension controls, and improvements to navigation. There was also a discussion around the need for user permission controls in the Site Editor and more general extensibility.

These additional resources were shared:

  • The Gutenberg 16.0 release post
  • A sneak peek at When Block Styles Are Not Enough: Extending Blocks in Themes by @greenshady
  • The WordPress 6.3 Editor Tasks project board on GitHubGitHub 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/

The next Hallway Hangout will be held in July. The focus will be on extending block themes beyond what is available in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Stay tuned for the official announcement. In the meantime, you can test out the latest functionality coming to WordPress 6.3 by using Gutenberg 16.0 or by completing the latest FSE Program Testing Call #24: Momery Makeover.

#hallway-hangout