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KafleG 8:39 am on July 26, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – July 25, 2023

Howdy Mates! :wave:

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 414 tickets were opened
  • 419 tickets were closed
    • 408 tickets were made live.
      • 20 new Themes were made live.
      • 388 Theme updates were made live.
      • 7 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 11 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 11  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 are currently reviewing. In the last 7 days, 6 blocks themes are live.

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @fahimmurshed, @bijayyadav)

2. Getting Started at a 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/. page update

As per the @poena message here in this channel, this page needs an update. These days, the way contributors day for the themes team is quite different these days. If you have feedback for this page, please create an issue here and also provide your feedback for this page.

3. Testing themes on WordPress 6.3 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge.

During the meeting, @kafleg reminded the authors that WordPress 6.3 RC1 is available for testing. The site editor feature is particularly exciting. A video about the upcoming version can be found here.

While writing this meeting notes, WordPress 6.2 RC2 is already released. So, you can test it.

4. Open Floor

During the open floor, @greenshady shared updates on the Theme Handbook Overhaul project, with new document drafts related to CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Concepts > Templates and Core Concepts > Custom Functionality. He added, as always, we could use volunteers to pick up new docs listed here (I’m happy to work with anyone who needs help getting started).

@kafleg appreciated @greenshady for the valuable contribution and mentioned the need to check for complex words and sentences while reviewing the Theme Handbook Overhaul.

@Travel_girl received thanks for helping review 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 themes and is planning to work on a guide for checking accessibility themes. Maja Benke is working on how we can effectively change the process of reviewing accessibility-ready themes. She discovered that, during the testing of a few themes in the last weeks, she noticed, that the current docs are not mentioning, that some points we need to check on all template pages. Also, she tries to find a way, to onboard new testers, but also to make sure, the test result is valid, as accessibility has to be tested manually.

Maja is looking for your feedback on this. Check the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. ticket here.

Justin requested Maja to help with drafting a11yAccessibility 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) chapters of the theme handbook and she is ready to do that.

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 4:34 am on July 13, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – July 11, 2023

Howdy Mates! :wave:

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 668 tickets were opened
  • 669 tickets were closed
    • 655 tickets were made live.
      • 21 new Themes were made live.
      • 634 Theme updates were made live.
      • 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 8  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 are currently reviewing.

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @fahimmurshed)

2. WCUS 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/.

For those who attend the WCUS and the Contributor day of it, I would like to request them to join the themes table as well.

In the themes table, table leads will guide you on how to contribute to community themes. So, this year WCUS CD will focus on building block themes for the community @poena, and @onemaggie will be there to guide you on what is community themes and how to contribute to them.

If you are interested in contributing, you can also contribute online for this community theme.

Read more here about WCUS contributor day. Contributor Day – WordCamp US 2023

3. Open floor

During the open floor, @kafleg shared,

@kafleg requested theme authors to test your themes with the beta and RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. versions of 6.3. You’ll see exciting features that you were looking for for a long time.

@greenshady requested meeting attendees to help on reviewing and writing the theme handbook.

P.S. While writing this meeting note, beta 4 is also released.

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

KafleG 3:17 am on June 28, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – June 27, 2023

Howdy Mates! :wave:

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 512 tickets were opened
  • 510 tickets were closed
    • 501 tickets were made live.
      • 43 new Themes were made live.
      • 458 Theme updates were made live.
      • 2 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 9 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 13 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 are currently reviewing

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @fahimmurshed)

2. Review theme handbook drafts

You can find the progress link at: https://github.com/WordPress/create-block-theme/issues

We have a few drafts ready for review.

You can see the outline and the status of the draft writing here.

Help us to review it or write it or both.

Thank you @greenshady for your hard work. The writing is really nice and precise.

3. Open Floor:

There was nothing to discuss officially and the meeting attendees were only 3. So, we closed the meeting quick.

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

KafleG 3:22 am on June 14, 2023
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – June 13, 2023

Howdy Mates! :wave:

The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion.

Attendees:

1. Weekly updates

In the past 7 days,

  • 547 tickets were opened
  • 548 tickets were closed
    • 544 tickets were made live.
      • 23 new Themes were made live.
      • 521 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 4 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

For now, 14 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 are currently reviewing

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.

Number of theme reviewers: 4 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @shrestharaaz, @bijayyadav)

2. Experience sharing – WCEU 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/.

The Contributor’s Day event 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 on June 8 was a great success. First, thank you @poena and @onemaggie for leading the table.

During the meeting, @onemaggie shared that it was a nice experience leading the table. She mentioned that they had two tables full of people who worked on 8 pull requests (PRs) for Blue Note, the theme being developed by the community. They also worked on 3 PRs in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ that were related to theme development. The specific PRs they worked on were:

Everyone made great progress on this theme, and it was evident that everyone enjoyed working on it too.

Moreover, they received a shoutout from @chanthaboune during the closing keynote, recognizing the excellent work done by the theme table. Everyone involved should feel very proud of their contributions.

@scruffian also added that he was there and helping out. All of the issues were taken by new contributors so he helped out by adding missing features to Gutenberg.

Thank you to everyone who joined the themes table. We are so excited for another big contributor day in WordCamp US.

3. Open Floor

During the open floor, @brianhenryie is hopeful that someone will take the time to review his PR, and he is willing to put in more effort to further work on it and ensure its successful merging. He has a pull request (PR) on an issue in WPTRT/admin-notices that he would like to be merged. The PR addresses a race condition in Firefox where the dismissal of admin notices was not being persisted. The specific issue and PR are as follows:

On the other hand, @greenshady shared a quick update on the Theme Handbook Overhaul. There are now three new drafts and one in-progress draft for the “Getting Started” chapter. There is still plenty more to do, so this is just a gentle reminder that anyone is welcome to contribute to this project. He is also happy to co-write documentation with others or provide assistance in any way possible.

@kafleg already reviewed some drafts and added feedback. He will review the other remaining as well.

There was a question about when we will start adding these drafts on the site. Justin said, “I think we’ll need to be at least 75% complete (rough guess) before publishing, but it will depend. Many of the new docs will tie/link back to other new docs, so they need to be written for the links to work. I think we’ll know more as the project continues. “.

@brianhenryie added it might fall under the categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. of “Publishing Themes,” but the problem of how to migrate a block theme from staging to production is one that I am unsure of how to solve. It could potentially be a valuable addition to the “Guides” chapter, providing step-by-step instructions on this topic.

 Justin responded, it could be a suitable topic for the Developer Blog, which offers opportunities for contributing informative articles. You can find more information on how to contribute to the Developer Blog at https://developer.wordpress.org/news/how-to-contribute/.

@kafleg asked if anyone had noticed the changes in the themes and plugins directories. They mentioned a couple of observations: the search options are no longer available, and the number of themes is also no longer displayed. Additionally, they shared a link (https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2022/12/16/plugins-themes-categorization/) related to the categorization of plugins and themes.

They suggested that if anyone wants to add commercial or community themes, they should send an email to themes@wordpress.org. They mentioned that this process is currently manual and requires some human intervention.

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

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

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