KafleG 8:35 am on October 21, 2024
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Themes team meeting agenda for October 22, 2024

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, the second meeting is set to take place on October 22.

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. SEO Keyword stuffing in theme name
  3. Twenty Twenty-Five theme testing
  4. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

KafleG 1:58 am on October 9, 2024
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Themes team meeting notes for October 08, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

  1. @jagirbahesh
  2. @mmaattiiaass
  3. @prathameshp
  4. @mosne
  5. @bijayyadav
  6. @juanfra
  7. @shivashankerbhatta
  8. @alexcu21
  9. @Ohia

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 709 tickets were opened
  • 697 tickets were closed
    • 683 tickets were made live.
      • 32 new Themes were made live.
      • 651 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 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: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb,@bijayyadav)

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:

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

2. Testing Twenty Twenty-Five theme in WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 2

WordPress 6.7 beta 2 is released, I recommend testing the theme with 6.7 and if you find any issues, report in the 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ for this theme development.

Twenty Twenty-Five is currently under development in GitHub. Your testing will help to make this theme powerful and issues free.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @mmaattiiaass asked “What are the requirements in terms of <h1> tags for themes?
Could we add this check to the theme-check pluginPlugin 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? Check the number of h1 elements on block theme templates“.

Also, he asked, “Does the theme-check plugin run automatically when a new theme is submitted to the theme’s repo?”

If you’ve answered these questions, please comment in the comment section or reply in the channel.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Hari Shanker R 6:58 am on October 8, 2024
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KafleG 1:29 pm on October 7, 2024
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Themes team meeting agenda for October 08, 2024

The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, the first meeting is set to take place on October 08.

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. Testing Twenty Twenty-Five theme in WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1
  3. Open Floor

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#agenda, #themes-team

KafleG 9:34 am on September 26, 2024
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Themes team meeting notes for September 24, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

  1. @richtabor
  2. @bijayyadav
  3. @lamarajan
  4. @shivashankerbhatta
  5. @aslamnaik
  6. @bijayyadav
  7. @greenshady

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 748 tickets were opened
  • 747 tickets were closed
    • 738 tickets were made live.
      • 35 new Themes were made live.
      • 703 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 9 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: 5 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @rinkuyadav999)

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:

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

2. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development

So far we’ve 49 contributors who already contributed and they will be counted as a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor in WP 6.7 release. This is a good and easy way to contribute to WordPress core. You can even contribute by testing the PRs or finding the bug in the theme.

If you need any idea, you can always use #core-themes channel and ask your queries there. During the meeting @kafleg said, “It’s not about contributing only, it’s a great chance to learn building block themes with experienced block theme developers.”

3. Testing Theme Check PluginPlugin 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 PRs

Themes team is looking for helping hand to test the PRs that we’ve in the Theme Check plugin.

If you are block theme developer or want to create block theme, you need to know how to add skip links or how to test skip link requirement.

Thank you @onemaggie for creating PR for skip links in the block theme. Anyone can test this PR on your themes or other’s block theme as well.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady shared a quick note about 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) chapter in the theme handbook. If you are interested, check here, https://github.com/WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker/issues/816

Thank you @lamarajan for your interest. @joedolson said, Accessibility Team is currently in the process of revising the accessibility-ready requirements and process and having goal to finish in November. @alh0319 is also interested helping for this task.

@richtabor was also curious if anyone’s explored adding text styles to themes. Justin said, “I add block style variations for consistent text styles.”

#meeting-notes, #themes-team