Last Tuesday, we held a meeting with the proposed agenda. The recap of the meeting is below and you can read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives (a Slack account is required).
Weekly updates
In the past seven days
- 265 tickets were opened
- 288 tickets were closed:
- 261 tickets were made live.
- 20 new Themes were made live.
- 241 Theme updates were made live.
- 9 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 24 tickets were not-approved.
- 3 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
Recap of the online contributor day
As we announced in this post, we tried to replace the contributor day in the cancelled WordCamp Asia with an online contribution day. Therefore, @poena and @kafleg conducted an online workshop on theme review for the Bangladeshi developers. It was very fruitful. Even though participation was less than expected, we managed to review together around 25 themes. Some of the themes reviewed could not be approved and we had a couple of suspensions, but we could nevertheless set live several themes. All in all, we are rather content with the results of the day. We ran the online contribution day with Zoom and the session lasted more than 6 hours.
We would like to have feedback about this type of exercise, so if you were one of the participants, please feel free to leave your opinion in the comments. Also, if there is a group of people interested in contributing online to other events like this, we can repeat the exercise in the future. We would love to share ideas to improve the reviews. Ping us if interested, here in the comments or in the Slack #themereview channel.
Removal of the Featured themes tab in the theme directory
The Featured themes tab in the themes directory page has been removed on the wordpress.org site. The meta ticket associated with this removal is here. Besides, there is a core ticket to remove the Featured tab in the Add themes screen of the administration menu. There has also been a discussion to improve the Featured themes tab in this ticket, but it never reached an operable conclusion.
Full Site Editing Road map: Requirements for block based themes
Next, we shared some information about the roadmap for the block-based themes.
Block-based themes can still not be submitted for review. Neither we have a date for when they can start to be submitted. However, you can experiment and try to develop your owns and also you can contribute to Full Site Editing (FSE) in Gutenberg.
Remember that we do not allow custom blocks in themes and that will continue to be so. Block-based themes do not have to register blocks.
A list of the proposed requirements for block-based themes can be found here, but it is work in progress. The new requirements are based on the fact that block-based themes will use HTML templates instead of PHP templates. HTML templates musk work without errors in Gutenberg. We will adapt the requirements, deleting those we don’t need anymore and adding new ones as we move along.
Next meeting is planned for Tuesday 10th March.
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