Block-based Theme Meeting Notes — July 15, 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.

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

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

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 meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC

Triage Meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 18:00 UTC

#block-based-meeting

Happened in #themereview, facilitated by @kjellr!

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Roundup

Effort to improve the documentation around 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 has been pulled into PRs: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23750 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23748
@poena wrote an extensive block-based theme tutorial: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/tutorials/block-based-themes/
Theme-related features and improvements:

Open Floor

Can we submit block-based themes to the themes directory yet?
- The theme may not pass the themecheck due to experimental-theme.json but maybe an exception can be made?
- May be good to allow Block-based themes in a little before FSE is merged in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. This is open to discussion.
There are some open PRs in theme-experiments that could use review:
- https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/45
- https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/44