Meeting notes Tuesday November 10 2020

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.

We help build and maintain default themes.

The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to 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.-based themes.

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

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

Meet us in the #themereview 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.

Meetings:

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 15:00 UTC.

Block Based Themes meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC

#themereview

Our agenda for this meeting can be found here https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2020/11/08/themes-team-meeting-agenda-for-november-10/

Weekly updates:

266 tickets were opened
275 tickets were closed:
260 tickets were made live.
18 new Themes were made live.
242 Theme updates were made live.
6 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
15 tickets were not-approved.
0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

A new requirement for links in content

The team decided to add a new accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) requirement that will affect all themes, not only themes that use the accessibility-ready tag. The full requirement can be read here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/accessibility/required/#content-link

Links within content must be underlined.
When links appear within a larger body of 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.-level content, they must be clearly distinguishable from surrounding content.

Removing the requirement of specific CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. classes

Theme authors are encouraged to support the following WordPress CSS classes but are no longer required to do so. The themes team will not be checking for these classes during review.

.sticky
.bypostauthor
.alignleft
.alignright
.aligncenter
.wp-caption
.wp-caption-text
.gallery-caption

Please allow some time for the team to update the plugins to reflect this change.

Organizing documentation and Tutorials for Full Site Editing themes

During the meeting we discussed where to publish documentation and tutorials for Full Site Editing themes / block-based themes.

These can first be published on the Themes Team’s blog and be moved to the Theme Developer Handbook once Full Site Editing is no longer experimental. We expect further discussions to take places when there is more material.

The next Themes team meeting is Tuesday November 24 at 15:00 UTC.

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