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Welcome to the Theme Review team.

We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory. The Theme Review Team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data and the Theme Sniffer plugin.

Interested in joining the Theme Reviewers team?

Great! To find out more just visit the Join The Team page.

Want to know more? There is a more information in the Theme Review Team’s Handbook and the Review itself.

Meetings

We have a project meeting twice a month on Second and Fourth Tuesday at 18:00 CET in the #themereview channel on Slack.

Next meeting: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 05:00 PM UTC.

Agendas | Meeting Notes

Home / Handbook / Get involved / Become a Reviewer

Become a Reviewer

So you want to be a theme reviewer? That’s great. The team is open to anyone and you can easily get started following these steps.

  1. Create a WordPress.org user account or login.
  2. Join Slack. Visit make.wordpress.org/chat/ and sign up using your WordPress.org user account. You can then join the theme review team in #themereview. All our meetings are done in Slack. Checkout when our next one will be.
  3. Subscribe to the blog on make.wordpress.org/themes. Being subscribed to this blog lets you keep in touch with the team and updates.
  4. Set up your testing environment.
  5. Set WP_DEBUG to 'true' in your wp-config.php file.
  6. Install the following Plugins (Note: all plugins below can be installed via the Developer plugin except the theme sniffer):
  7. Read through the requirements that the theme needs to pass to be approved, as well as the examples.
  8. Introduce your self in the Slack channel and Request a theme to start reviewing. See a list of the themes that are assigned to you.
  9. Do your review! See the suggested ticket format below.
    Please remember that we do not review design.  The focus of your review should be security. We only require design changes if something is broken or unusable.
  10. Be sure not to close your ticket. Leave it open for the author’s changes in response to your review.
  11. Approve the theme once it passes all of the requirements.
  12. Once the ticket is approved one of the experienced reviewers will go over the ticket.

Once you have done enough theme reviews to be comfortable with the process and guidelines, you will be added to the “Reviewers” group, which will enable you to assign and close tickets yourself.

Every reviewer has their own workflows. This section is designed to shed some insight into common aspects of the being a reviewer. Here we will add more resources over time. To start we have information on the queues and a suggested ticket format.

Also see Theme review process and Working with Trac.

Suggested ticket format

When you write your ticket response to a theme here is a suggested way of doing that:

  • ‘Welcome wrapper’. Say Hi to the author, let them know what you are going to do. This may be their first review.
  • Say the outcome. Let the author know from the start what the outcome is.
  • Required. List all the required items, a theme can’t be approved until all of these are met.
  • Recommended. You can then list all the recommended items. These won’t be a grounds to not approve, but they are good theme practice.
  • Notes. This could be a section where you add design notes, maybe additional information. Again, this can’t be something you don’t approve because, but it can be a way to educate.
  • Say what is going to happen next. Keeping the author informed is great. Let them know you will let them upload a new version or what the approval process is.

Using the headings ‘Required, Recommended and Notes’ is really helpful for people when viewing the review.

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