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KafleG 3:54 am on October 23, 2024
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Themes team meeting notes for October 22, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: October 22, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @bijayyadav
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting.

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 751 tickets were opened
  • 755 tickets were closed
    • 741 tickets were made live.
      • 20 new Themes were made live.
      • 721 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: 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:

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

Currently, we have 86 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

2. SEO Keyword stuffing in the theme name

While reviewing themes or checking the themes repo, we found some themes’ names is not like a name but more SEO keyword stuffing.

Theme name like `SEO Specialist Agency` is more like keywords, not name. During the meeting, @williampatton said, “That does seem kinda keyword loaded to me but I don’t know if it violates any rules”. @heatheracton added, “Given these themes are meant for wide use, it could be suggested they change to “Specialist Agency”. “SEO Specialist Agency” seems pretty niche? Maybe could add something to the theme developer handbook, recommending generic names?”

Aslam Naik said, “If an author persistently submits themes which are obvious keyword stuffing, we can suggest them. If they are using long-tail keywords we can suggest or request changes, I think once they know reviewers are aware of this issue, they will automatically deter”.

@kafleg summarized that to reduce such name by,

  • Check the name of the theme and if the name seems Keyword stuffing, inform the theme author to change it.
  • Suggest some good name ideas.
  • If they repeatedly do, again ask them to change.

During the meeting, we agreed to follow this and then see how it will work in coming days.

3. Twenty Twenty-Five theme testing

Testing the TT5(Twenty Twenty-Five) theme is also a good way to contribute to the WordPress project. You can test PRs or the entire theme with current and previous versions of WordPress, as well as in different PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. versions.

During the meeting, @heatheracton shared, “Just wanted to share that I’m submitting my first ever Issue after testing the TT5 theme.”  

We love to see your active contribution to testing the TT5 theme. Also, the RC1 of 6.7 is released.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared that, KafleG, @shivashankerbhatta and @ohia talked with the Contributor Mentorship Program themes team mentee and it was a nice talk.

Matias is looking for reviewers who can review PRs for 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.

See you everyone at the next meeting! Mark your calendar for second Tuesday of November.


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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

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

KafleG 6:19 am on September 11, 2024
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Themes team meeting notes for September 10, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

  1. @bijayyadav
  2. @dballari
  3. @arambdev
  4. @poena
  5. @davidperez
  6. @glgeorgiou
  7. @shivashankerbhatta
  8. @francgrasso
  9. @mmaattiiaass
  10. @presskopp

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 570 tickets were opened
  • 578 tickets were closed
    • 561 tickets were made live.
      • 44 new Themes were made live.
      • 517 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 17 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 for reviewing themes this week @acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @rinkuyadav999, @shivashankerbhatta.

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:

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

2. Update 4 letters for min prefix length

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 review team decided for several reason to increase the Prefix All Globals to 4 characters. You can also join the discussion in the GitHub if you want to add any input.

Also, you can join the discussion for changing in WordPress coding standards. @davidperez said that it will be merged to 3.2.0.

To make the consistency in themes and plugins, we need to make the guidelines for 4 characters prefixing. Comment down below if you have any other thoughts. Personally, I think that it is good to have 4 letters prefixing. We can set the standard for the prefixing.

3. Twenty Twenty-Five theme development

During the meeting @poena shared the status of the theme development. She said, “the work has started on almost all patterns, and the leads are reviewing the pull requests as fast as we can”.

If you want to contribute, here is 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/ link.

4. 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. US 2024

If you are attending WordCamp US 2024 on this September 17–20 at Oregon Convention Center, don’t miss to attend themes table during the contributor day. Here is the entire schedule for the event.

5. Open Floor

There are 2 PRs in the theme check plugin to test. @mmaattiiaass shared the PR link during the meeting and he is looking help for reviewing this PR and merged.

@davidperez shared project from the Plugin Review Team and Performance Lab and more coming in the Plugin Check.

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

KafleG 10:04 am on August 28, 2024
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Themes team meeting notes for August 27, 2024

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

Attendees:

  1. @bijayyadav
  2. @nejwrks
  3. @ohidul
  4. @rinkuyadav999
  5. @greenshady
  6. @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.

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:

  • 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 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, 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 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/ 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 pingPing 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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