With 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 coming closer every day, Juliette Reinders Folmer from the WordPress Coding Standards team and I decided to have a chat about the status of the current Theme coding standards and the Theme Sniffer plugin.

The current focus is bringing the Theme coding standards up to date with the PHP_CodeSniffer (v 3.x) and WordPress Coding Standards (0.14.1) (open PR #145) and finishing up the rewrite of the Theme SnifferTheme Sniffer Theme Sniffer is a plugin utilizing custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer that statically analyzes your theme and ensures that it adheres to WordPress coding conventions, as well as checking your code against PHP version compatibility. The plugin is available from the plugin directory and Github. Themes are not required to pass the Theme Sniffer scan without warnings or errors to be included in the theme directory. 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 so that it can be used during the Contributors day on WordCamp Europe.

I’ve written about the meeting in the 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, you can check that out here.

A meeting will be held on Thursday 31st, 09:00 AM CET via hangouts. You can add the google calendar events to your calendar by clicking these links meeting part 1, meeting part 2, the hangouts link is added in the events, but we’ll provide one during the meeting on the theme review slack channel. Be sure you are logged in with google account, so that we can use built-in hangouts functionality like chat, if needed.

The proposed agenda will be:

• Talk through the PR to update to WPCS 0.14.1 / PHPCS 3.x & merge. #145
• Go through all open PRs: PRs
  • some will need updating for PHPCS 3.x
  • some will need updating for WPCS
  • some will need reviewing
  • some might be mergeable (after rebase)
• Go through all open issues: issues
  • create PRs for those where upstream activity has made it an easy fix
  • determine priority and action for the rest
• Go through the upstream WPCS issue Add sniffs for theme checks to see:
  • what’s still relevant what with the developments in TRT-land
  • what can be fixed easily what with new sniffs having been added to WPCS + PHPCS
  • open issues in WPTRT-CS repo for what remains
• Go through all WPCS sniffs to see which if any of the new sniffs added should also be added to TRTCS
• Browse through upstream PHPCS sniffs to see if there are (new) sniffs we should include.

There is still a lot of work to be done, so we would very much like to welcome people to contribute to this project. Contributors can really help us a lot by testing the new Theme Sniffer plugin. Testing sniffs and contributing by writing sniffs is also very welcome. I hope all who are interested and want to contribute will be there so that we can finish this before the WCEU Contributors day.

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