Theme Review Team Meeting Agenda for May 12

Welcome to the Themes team!

We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

We do license, security, and code quality reviews.

Code reviews are a great way to learn more about developing themes and improving your own skills.

If this sounds interesting, read more about the team here. Check out our guide for new reviewers.

Handbooks and review requirements

The team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data, and helps the documentation team with the Theme Developer Handbook.

Coding standards and plugins

We maintain the WPThemeReview Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer, the Theme Sniffer plugin and Theme Check

Code Packages

We have code packages for themes available for use on Github and Packagist

Communication

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Meetings:

Note that we are having a summer break for the bi- weekly Theme Review meeting.

Next review meeting is on August 4 17:00 UTC.

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 17:00 UTC Second Tuesday in the month is open floor and the fourth Tuesday is with a fixed agenda.

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Triage Meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 18:00 UTC

Theme review team (TRT) conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Along with the fixed agendas, we have open floor meeting at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, 12th May 2020, 17:00 UTC

Meeting Agenda

Weekly Updates
Open floor
Changing the name of the team
Discussion regarding using “Guten” in theme names
Selecting a date and time for WCEU office hours
Closing 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. in the 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 directory

The discussion about the meeting agenda can be held in the comments below. You are encouraged to propose topics.

Meetings usually last around 60 minutes. Attend and share your valuable feedback and suggestions.

#agenda, #meeting, #trt

Marius L. J. 3:59 pm on May 12, 2020

I’d like to hear your thoughts on making the `Tested up to` and `Requires PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php.` fields required.

This as part of making the push to have folks update their PHP versions, having themes consistently declare these fields will ensure users get a good indicator of why they can’t install a theme, and help guide them towards the upgrade.

These fields are already recommended in the theme readme, so this would just be a small policy change.
- dingo-d 5:03 pm on May 12, 2020
  
  I’m 100% for this 🙂
- Md.Mehedi Hasan 5:06 pm on May 12, 2020
  
  I am agree with it.

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