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KafleG 3:09 am on March 12, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for March 11, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: March 11, 2024
  • Time: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #themes channel
  • Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda
  • Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg
  • Meeting facilitator – @kafleg
  • Full transcript –  #themes channel

Attendees:

Thank you everyone who attended the meeting. 

1. Weekly Updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 688 tickets were opened
  • 702 tickets were closed
    • 682 tickets were made live.
      • 39 new Themes were made live.
      • 643 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 20 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: 7 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @bijayyadav, @ammarsaif, @kristynabennett)

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
  • 10 The Block theme has been live for the last 7 days

More information on weekly updates is here.

This week, 150+ themes were suspended, as they were not updated and had security issues. And also with affiliate spam links.

We request everyone to update your theme according to the current theme guidelines to avoid suspending the themes.

2. Open Floor

@ohia shared about 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. Madrid 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/.. She said, “On Friday at WCMAD I led the themes table. We had 6 new people sign on to the #themes channel, and we translated the orally to Spanish the guidelines and read about the team. Then we uploaded a theme in playground and we reviewed it for theme requirements but didn’t finish”.

She added, “It made me realize that I need to do this on my own a few times so I can be a better leader at the tables but it was a good time and everyone learned something amidst the chaos of a very loud CD”.

During the open floor, @kafleg shared about the WordPress 6.7 change, per @joyously comment in the meeting agenda post. With the WordPress. 6.7 change, that could affect themes that use the accordion markup in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. theme page:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63042


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KafleG 5:04 am on January 30, 2025
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Themes team meeting notes for January 28, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion.

  • Date: January 28, 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,

  • 779 tickets were opened
  • 799 tickets were closed
    • 777 tickets were made live.
      • 41 new Themes were made live.
      • 736 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 22 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: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @bijayyadav, @ammarsaif)

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:

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

Currently, we have 53 themes under review. More information on weekly updates is here.

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 2025 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/.

WordCamp Asia Contributor Day is happening on 20 Feb 2025 at PICC, Manila Philippines. @kafleg and @bijayyadav will be there leading the table. If you want to learn theme guidelines, start reviewing themes, contribute in community themes development and other areas of the themes team, join there.

You can see detailed information about Contributor Day here. We would like to see you there.

3. Community themes development

We have an initiative for community theme development, and you can also be a part of it. You can either contribute design of themes and help develop or test them. You can also review the theme’s code and make it ready for submission on WordPress.org. This is also considered as contributing to the themes team.

Recently a theme named Darken is under development and the design was submitted by @amitbajracharya and currently developing by @bijayyadav. Thank you for your contribution.

There are some PRs to review, you can also help by reviewing them. If you attend the themes table in WordCamp Asia contributor day, we’ll also discuss this more. So don’t miss the opportunity.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @dballari asked a question about 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)-ready tag in his theme. @shivashankerbhatta is interested in helping him with that.

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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.

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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.”

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