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KafleG 4:19 am on May 31, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – May 30, 2023

Hello everyone 👋

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 573 tickets were opened
  • 599 tickets were closed
    • 582 tickets were made live.
      • 34 new Themes were made live.
      • 548 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 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.

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,

  • 15 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 318 Block Themes in the themes repository.

Read here for more detailed information about the weekly updates.

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: 2  (@kafleg, @acosmin)

2. 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/. at 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. Europe 2023

Contributor Day will take place on 8 June. And you’ll find the themes table on the contributor day. If you are attending and want to contribute to the themes table, please join. @poena and @onemaggie will be there as table lead.

@poena mentioned during the meeting that, her plan is to work on Community themes. You can join the themes table and discuss and learn about Block themes.

If you are not able to attend physically, you can still contribute online. Join #contributor-day channel and you can ask for guidance on how to contribute.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady shared a couple of updates on the Theme Handbook Overhaul project.

He wrote “Here’s the Phase 2 announcement post, which details the next steps for a new theme handbook. There’s also a GitHub ticket where we are tracking the project. I would like to invite interested folks to get involved. The more folks, the merrier!”

He added, “I’ve picked up the first ticket and will be just working down the list if an item is not taken by someone else. Feel free to pick and choose sections/pages you want to work on.”

I would like to request you all check the announcement post and try to contribute.

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

KafleG 8:48 am on April 26, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 25, 2023

Hello everyone 👋

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 25, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

  • This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. 
  • The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @kafleg
  • Full transcript – #themereview channel

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 488 tickets were opened
  • 486 tickets were closed
    • 475 tickets were made live.
      • 23 new Themes were made live.
      • 452 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 11 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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,

  • 15 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 285 Block Themes in the themes repository.
  • 5 Block themes live in the past 7 days.

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

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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: 2  (@kafleg, @acosmin)

2. Open Floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared the community theme link which is submitted on WordPress TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. for review. It is currently under review and you can also check the theme that is developed by the community.

We only have 2 days left to share your feedback or comment on the Theme Handbook Overhaul Proposal. The last date is 28th April. Make sure you’ll check the proposal and give your valuable feedback and suggestions.

@Kuckovic joined the themes team meeting for the first time and we welcomed him.

Except that, there is nothing discussed in the last meeting and it was short and sweet.

Props to the meeting attendees: @Kuckovic, @bgardner, @mhamal, @mikachan, @Fitehal for joining the meeting.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 5:47 am on April 12, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – April 11, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on April 11, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

  • This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. 
  • The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @kafleg
  • Full transcript – #themereview channel

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days, (All themes stats)

  • 570 tickets were opened
  • 580 tickets were closed
  • 569 tickets were made live.
    • 534 Theme updates were made live.
    • 35 new Themes were made live.
  • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 11 tickets were not-approved.
  • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

In the past 7 days, (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)

  • 9 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 275 Block Themes in the themes repository.
  • 6 Block themes live in the past 7 days.

Last week theme reviewers: @acosmin, @kafleg, @rabmalin

Thank you @williampatton for saying “I just want to say it really is nice to see numbers like these. Nearly every theme uploaded gets through approval. Every theme uploaded gets looked at and an answer within a week.”

@kafleg mention that he is looking for help reviewing the 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) part of a few themes and @williampatton was interested to help.

And during the meeting, we cheer @acosmin for reviewing 4000+ themes so far. Thank you a lot for your contribution.

2. Theme Handbook Overhaul Proposal

There was not much discussion happened in the meeting. But, we’ll have a dedicated meeting for this proposal on #themereview channel at 13:00 UTC on April 18. I would like to request everyone to participate in the meeting and help us to finalize the outline. Or, if you can’t make it, please leave a comment on the post or in the document.

@greenshady said, “It’d be great to get any feedback (negative or positive) on the direction, things you’d change, or whatever your thoughts are. Or, are there any questions about the proposal?”

He added, the biggest thing now is getting the outline to a stage that we all feel pretty good about. I think that will help us in the content phase. So, I definitely want folks to take some time to really think about how the handbook should flow from teaching someone who hasn’t ever built a theme before to building their first one. 

3. Review 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

The theme check plugin is updated and thanks to everyone who helped to check PRs and also help on fixing the issues.

There are a few PRs left to merge. You can check them as well.

4. Open floor

During the open floor, @poena said, she is looking for someone who can troubleshoot the theme test data update. We want theme authors and users to check the data and post their findings in the comment.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @williampatton, @Fitehal, @risager, @shrestharaaz, @bijayyadav

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

KafleG 12:20 am on March 15, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 14, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 14, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 438 tickets were opened
  • 427 tickets were closed
  • 420 tickets were made live.
  • 7 new Themes were made live.
  • 413 Theme updates were made live.
  • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 6 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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: 2  (@kafleg, @acosmin)

2. Community Themes Project

If you are not aware of the community themes project read here. In short, the community themes initiative is a collaborative effort to create 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 in much the same way as the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Twenty* themes are built.

During the meeting, @onemaggie informed us that there are already 3 themes underway. It’s really great news for this initiative.

@greenshady shared the GitHub link and requested everyone to join and contribute.

@shivashankerbhatta asked, “Is it only for individual contribution, or if any theme company can get involved”? Justin(@greenshady) replied, “Yes, anyone can be involved. The themes will be submitted under the WordPress username just like the core/default themes. So, it’s basically a collaborative effort to create more quality block themes for the WordPress community”. @onemaggie added, “It is a project born to foster collaboration and to spread the knowledge on how to build block themes.’

After checking the video and meeting notes, @shivashankerbhatta realize that the main problem will be is to maintain the themes. Justin said, “It is a potential problem that was brought up just based on the history of the Twenty themes not really being updated that often. It’s more of an “unknown” than a definite problem. I’m optimistic about keeping these themes updated since block themes are, by nature, simpler than classic themes”.

I would like to request you all spread the message about the community themes initiative and get more contributors involved.

3. Open Floor

There was nothing raised during the open floor.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @rinkuyadav999, @benlumia007, @shivashankerbhatta, @mhamal, @onemaggie for joining the meeting.

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

KafleG 3:56 am on March 1, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – February 28, 2023

Hello everyone.

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on February 28, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

  • This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. 
  • The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Notes taker – @kafleg
  • Full transcript – #themereview channel

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 450 tickets were opened
  • 468 tickets were closed
  • 457 tickets were made live.
  • 31 new Themes were made live.
  • 426 Theme updates were made live.
  • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 10 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

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

You can also find the weekly updates here.

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: 3  (@kafleg, @acosmin, @bijayyadav)

2. 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 2023 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/.

As you all know that WordCamp Asia 2023 contributor day went successfully. @bijayyadav and @sanjiv-saha were the table lead for the themes team.

During the meeting, @bijayyadav shared his experience with the themes table. He wrote, “We had a fantastic day. around 10-12, attendees attended the themes table. Some of them were new to the WordPress themes review process so we guided them on how to review WordPress themes and also showed them the theme review guidelines. I reviewed a theme to demonstrate how we review WordPress themes. Few of the attendees were theme authors themselves with some of the popular themes on WordPress theme repo. We discussed on differences between classic themes and 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 also what the best theme development approach would be.”.

Also, he added, “Overall it was fun and we also learned a lot from other fellow theme developers. There was not any difficulty as it was like a discussion session. All of us shared our views and our approaches to the work”.

@greenshady asked for the recorded things of the Contributor Day. As there was no complete recording but Contributor Day had a live webinar of 30 minutes and talked with table leads and the contributors. You can check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4miBF5oEvU This might help you to understand how beautiful the Contributor Day was. 🙂

3. Open Floor

There was a nice discussion happened. If you want to read it completely, go here.

@greenshady jumped in with a pre-announcement around a community themes proposal. He said,

“I wanted to share an initiative that was born and discussed with multiple themers that will help promote the creation of quality block themes and spread knowledge around building such themes.

The idea is to create a community themes repo that works the same way we collaborate when we build the default theme but all year round. We would build block themes together and help each other learn in the process. It won’t be subject to a deadline and we could have more than one theme being developed at once, allowing for more flexibility.

These themes would be released into the repository under the WordPress username the same way default themes and TT1 blocks are, giving appropriate credit to contributors.

There will soon be a post on the make blog with more info and to organize a hallway hangout to answer questions and discuss the idea further.”

@onemaggie added, “It would be great if any of you would like to participate in this idea in any capacity: with designs, code, ideas or reviews, all of it can help. Even just spreading the word to people who could be interested in learning and want to learn by doing”.

@poena asked, Are we using the theme experiments repository and the “core themes projects” 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/. channel? Maggie said, she started a new repo for it and she is fine to use the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes project slack channel for the discussions.

If you are interested and want to contribute to community themes, join the #themereview channel or #core-themes-projects slack channel and get started. We are looking for your help in any area that you can.

Props to the meeting attendees: @greenshady, @bijayyadav, @amin7, @onemaggie, @elmastudio, @mhamal and @poena for joining the meeting.

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