Benachi 3:34 pm on February 22, 2022  

Themes team meeting has been postponed to February 23, 2022

Due to 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/. outage, the themes team meeting has been rescheduled. 

New date: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 15:00UTC in the Slack #themereview channel. 

The meeting agenda can be found here. 

KafleG 4:02 pm on February 21, 2022
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Themes team meeting agenda for February 22, 2022

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, February 22 2022, 15:00 UTC

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on the WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend.

Meeting agenda

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Noteworthy Update
  3. Open floor

1. Weekly Updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

Also check,

2. Noteworthy Update

We will share some important updates of WordPress and themes related things in this section. Attend the meeting or wait for the meeting notes for the detailed information.

4. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#meeting, #themes-team

Jeff Ong 5:48 pm on February 18, 2022
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of February 14th, 2022

Hello! This is the 76th roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in 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/.

New features:

Pattern Directory: Allow pattern registration from directory with theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.

#38232 This PR enables themes to register patterns from the Pattern Directory through theme.json. It checks for a pattern’s top level key that is an array of pattern slugs from the directory.

Contrast Checker: check link color 

#38100 adds the contrast checker feature to the link color control.

Fixes: 

Site Editor: Remove extra div on post content

#38451 removes an unwanted extra div that the post content 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. outputs and additional div when being rendered in the Site Editor.

Fix global styles loading logic

#38745 loads global styles using this logic, no matter the WordPress version:

  1. Block theme. Always load in the .
  2. Classic theme that hasn’t opted into loading coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. assets separately. Load in the .
  3. Classic theme that has opted into loading core assets separately. Load in the .

Duotone: Allow users to specify custom filters

#38442 allows themes to specify their own custom duotone filters.

Search Block: Fix border radius reset

#38478 fixes the reset border functionality.

Documentation updates:

Add a high-level intro to styles in the block editor

#38208 adds a new document to the handbook: a high-level intro to how styles work in the block editor.

Overview Issues

DT: Design Tools Overview #33447

FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Building with Patterns #38529

FSE:  Updated scope for site editing projects #33094

Open PRs

GS: Fix default duotone preset SVG and style generation #38681

GS: Fix display of color palettes for border panel #38798

General Resources:

Thanks @mmaattiiaass for compiling this week’s update, and @onemaggie helping! Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight 🙂

Abbreviation key:

  • DT: Design Tools
  • FSE: Full Site Editing
  • GS: Global Styles

#gutenberg-themes-roundup

Benachi 3:45 pm on February 8, 2022
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – February 8, 2022

Hello everyone. These are the meeting notes from the themes review team discussion on February 8, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting was facilitated by @kafleg. The note was taken by @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel. 

1. Weekly updates

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here in the past 7 days,

  • 569 tickets were opened
  • 571 tickets were closed:
    • 555 tickets were made live.
      • 24 new Themes were made live.
      • 531 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 16 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 2

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. Themes
1 block themes are live in the past 7 days.  

2. Open floor

No questions or comments were brought during the open floor. 

#meeting-notes, #themereview

KafleG 7:25 am on February 7, 2022
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Themes team meeting agenda for February 08, 2022

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, February 08 2022, 15:00 UTC

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on the WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend.

Meeting agenda

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Noteworthy Update
  3. Open floor

1. Weekly Updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

Also check,

2. Noteworthy Update

We will share some important updates of WordPress and themes related things in this section. Attend the meeting or wait for the meeting notes for the detailed information.

4. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#agenda, #themes-team