Themes Team Meeting Notes – January 09, 2024

Howdy Mates, welcome to 2024!

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

:one:Weekly and Year 2023 updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 739 tickets were opened
  • 743 tickets were closed
    • 706 tickets were made live.
      • 32 new Themes were made live.
      • 674 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 37 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.

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.

If you haven’t checked the Themes team year 2023 review, I strongly recommend checking it.

During the meeting we welcomed our new team reps they are continuing from 2023. During the meeting, I mentioned, “We are just team representatives and we look for your equal support and contribution.”

View more about team reps here.

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

During the meeting @acosmin said that “we can add the requirements on the requirements page and see how it goes”. We’ll allow theme authors to add setting pages and onboarding in themes.

Recommended readings:

Also, we would like to request theme authors, if you add such a setting page, please reach out to @acosmin, @kafleg or @greenshady for a quick look and review it exclusively.

On a side note, Justin said, “I have some thoughts on settings pages. Would it be beneficial to have an Slot in-the-Site Editor navigation panel? If there’s not already a ticket, that would be worth exploring. That way, there’s a more dedicated place for custom settings screens in the Site Editor. Just jotting this down for the future, but anyone is welcome to explore that on their own too”.

He added, “I think it would help resolve some of the 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 settings screen discussion in a way that works well with the block editor. I’ll run the idea by a few folks”.

We would like to see how theme authors will come up with the idea implementation.

:four: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. (Nepal and Asia)

WordCamp Nepal is going to happen on January 12 & 13. The first day of the event is 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/.. @anilbasnet and @ughimire1 are the themes team table lead. If you are attending, don’t miss out on joining the themes table.

For WordCamp Asia 2024, we are still looking for one table lead for the themes team and two table leads for team patterns. If you are attending and interested in the table leads, let me know. You can also comment in the below comment section and show your interest. WordCamp Asia will happen in Taipei, Taiwan on this march 7-9.

:five: Open floor

During the open floor, Justin shared that he is planning to write a make themes blog post to share the updates about Theme Handbook Overhaul.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

Themes team meeting agenda for January 09, 2024

Hello world!

Welcome to the first meeting of 2024.

The themes team meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month.

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, January 09, 2024, 15:00 UTC

In addition to the scheduled agendas, we reserve time at the conclusion for an open floor session, providing an opportunity for you to pose questions or share any themes-related information.

We strongly encourage the active participation of all members and anyone with an interest in the discussion. If you have particular agenda items you would like to propose, please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Meeting Agendas

  • Weekly updates
  • Welcome team reps for 2024
  • New requirements for settings pages & onboarding in themes
  • 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. (Nepal and Asia)
  • Open Floor

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

#meeting, #themes-team

A Year in Themes Team – 2023

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s some data for 2023 about the WordPress themes team contribution on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets as well as 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 stats.

We would like to thank everyone who got involved in reviewing themes and creating themes. We also like to thank those who attended the themes team meeting, helped to find the bug in the themes developer handbook, and did other related things for the themes team.

Please note that the stats are based on WordPress trac custom query filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. and some manual counts. If you find any stats are invalid, let us know, and we’ll check them again.

General Overview

In the year 2023,

  • 28959 tickets were opened (Both new and updated)
  • 29032 tickets were closed
    • 28499 tickets were made live. (This includes news and updates)
      • 1413 new Themes were made live. (All Block, Hybrid, or Classic Themes)
      • 27086 Theme updates were made live.
    • 525 tickets were not approved.
    • 8 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Months/StatisticsTotalLiveNot Approved
January13610927
February987028
March14111229
April1129022
May 12310023
June15312330
July13310627
August15512431
September13311122
October1199029
November1299732
December806812

Block Themes Statistics

  • The number of Block Themes submissions: 364
    • Block themes were made live: 300
    • Block themes were not-approved: 53
    • Currently under review: 11
MonthsBlock Themes Live Number
January20
February15
March21
April26
May 21
June23
July22
August35
September35
October29
November30
December23

Block Theme Authors

Here is the list of top 10 authors by number of block themes uploaded.

AuthorsNumber of Block Themes Uploaded
codeyatri18
wpradiant17
cretathemes16
wowsthemes15
automattic14
gracethemes14
eaglethemes12
cozythemes11
catchthemes10
fly2sky9

Theme Reviewers

In the year 2023, we have 15 reviewers. Here is the list of the top 10 reviewers with the number of reviews (including not-approved).

Theme ReviewerNumber of reviews (including not-approved)
kafleg800
acosmin538
fahimmurshed69
vowelweb43
ShresthaRaaz38
bijayyadav11
aslamnaik3
rajinsharwar2

The rest of them have only 1 review per reviewer.


HelpScout Stats

In the year 2024,

Email Conversations 487Messages Received 650
Replies Sent 517Emails Created 18
Resolved 414Resolved on First Reply 85%

Block-focused Theme Handbook chapters

In this year 2023, we also worked on writing the theme handbook for the block theme.

  • Getting Started
  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Concepts
  • Global Settings and Styles (theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.)
  • Templates
  • Features

Extras

  • 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 updated: 3
  • Posts published in a weekly updates site: 42
  • Total meetings hosted and notes written: 15
  • Total agenda notes written: 19
  • Total blog posts published on the Make Themes site: 52

Thank you @acosmin for helping to collect statistics and data on 26th Dec.

#themes-team, #year2023

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Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2024 Edition


A couple of weeks ago, we issued a request for individuals interested in becoming team representatives to submit their nominations. Users could either 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 2023 team reps. All of them will continue from the previous term; however, if someone is interested in assisting, please reach out in the comments or 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/. to help.

The more help the reps have, the more they can achieve.

The 3 Themes Team representatives appointed via nominations:

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

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

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.

He is sponsored by Extend Themes to be a part-time reviewer.

You can reach him directly via WordPress Slack, and 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 Nepal and 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 2024 and moderates WordPress-related Podcasts in Go With WP.

You can reach him directly via WordPress slack, and the username is kafleg.

Shiva Shanker Bhatta

shivashankerbhatta

Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the Founder/CEO at AF themes. He has more than 10 years of experience in WordPress; Community, Contributions, and Development – Basically 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 in a good direction.

#themes-team