Themes team meeting agenda for December 12, 2023

Hello world! Welcome to the last meeting of 2023.

The themes team meets regularly on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. This session marks the first meeting of December, also serving as the final one for the year 2023. Given that the next meeting falls around Christmas and New Year, we have decided not to schedule the gathering during the holiday period.

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, December 12, 2023, 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
  • Nomination for team reps 2024 edition (Final Call)
  • Requirements for the settings/onboarding functionality
  • The year 2023 review
  • Open Floor

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

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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 projectsslackSlack 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.

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Themes Team Meeting Notes – August 9, 2022

Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on August 9, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting facilitator & Notetaker @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel. 

1. 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.

  • 430 tickets were opened
  • 429 tickets were closed:
    • 419 tickets were made live.
      • 22 new Themes were made live.
      • 397 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more was approved but is waiting to be made live.
    • 12 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 ticket was closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 3

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 Stats 

  • block themes went live in the past 7 days.
  • Total 112 block themes in the repository. 

Theme developer handbook update: 

Props to @greenshady and @colorful-tones for the recent updates. 

If you run across anything that is a blocker for adopting block themes or any FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks. component, please reach out on 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/. or DM @greenshady

2. Reserved themes name

We discussed how to check to see if a theme name is already taken or still available. Here are some key points we discussed. You can also check the thread here

  • A theme name must be unique from any other themes regardless of where they are hosted, including outside the WordPress directory. 
  • Use Google or other search engines to see whether a theme name is already take or not.
  • You can also search the themes svn for all registered themes.

3. Open Floor

If you have any feedback, please use the comment box below.

Thank you for participating @colorful-tones @mikachan @fahimmurshed @greenshady @uxl @benlumia007 @shshanker and @joyously

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Themes team meeting agenda for August 09, 2022

This is the themes team biweekly team meeting agenda.

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month second meeting is on 9th of August.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on the 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, August 09 2022, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting agenda

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Reserved themes name
  3. Open floor

1. Weekly updates

Theme Tickets and Help Scout updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

Themes developer handbook page updated. Thank you @greenshady. Also, Justin is working on  documentation and outreach for blockers with adoption of FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks. features. If you’ve anything in mind about this, you can reachout to him or share your message in #themereview channel.

2. Reserved themes name

We usually get questions from theme author regarding the name availability for themes. Before finding the name, we suggest you to check themes svn and also search the name in search engines. While uploading the new theme, theme check will also find the number of active installs of the theme. Not only the themes svn.

You can also read the discussion in Slack.

P.S: We always suggest to find a unique name. 🙂

3. Open Floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

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Complying with GDPR when using Google Fonts

As you may have heard, a German court fined a website using Google-hosted webfonts for violating Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This decision affects many themes in the directory. Most of us have been using Google Fonts by enqueuing from Google CDN. While it improves performance, it reveals a user’s IP address which consequently violates a user’s privacy.

How does the decision affect the existing themes?

The themes team strongly encourages the theme authors to update their themes. We recommend updating by switching to locally hosted webfonts. Luckily Google Fonts can be downloaded and bundled in a theme. Bundled font files allow users to host webfonts locally and comply with GDPR.

How does the decision affect the new themes?

We are planning to discuss further at our next meeting whether the remotely hosted font is allowed in a theme as we move forward. Please use the comment box below if you’d like to leave any comments.

Ways to locally host webfonts files

You can check out the default theme, Twenty Twenty-Two, to learn how to bundle locally hosted webfont files using theme.json.

For those using functions.php, you can check out the Implementing a Webfonts API in WordPress Core post by @aristath. It explains how to generate styles using bundled font files in detail. 

Alternatively, the theme authors can use the Webfont-loader package in conjunction with the webfonts APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. It allows authors to download Google Fonts locally and then use them in the API, which currently only supports local fonts.

Default themes

WordPress core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. are moving forward with updating the default themes, Twenty Twelve through Twenty Seventeen. You can follow the conversation at this link. Props to @luehrsen and @luminuu

Resources

Thank you @aristath and @kafleg for reviewing the post.

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