Month: January 2017
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Theme Reviewer (ex) “Live Stream”
Meeting with participants from the theme_review crew. The theme reviewers test whether submitted themes live up to the WordPress standards. If a new theme is accepted, it’s added to the WordPress repo. Then it’s available to millions of users.
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Theme Review Virtual Environment
Setting up the recommended theme review environment in Virtual Box on Linux Mint. The hardest part was setting up the PHP code sniffer. WordPress reviewers use several plugins for theme reviews. Do you want to publish a theme on WordPress? In that case a team of reviewers will check the theme for errors. The code must…
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Code Sniffer
Entered the theme review theme on make.wordpress.org. Today a lot of software was installed: Virtualbox (for a linux sandbox for WordPress) Installed the recommended bugtragging plugins in the sandbox. Then I read the extensive documentation on coding standards, and the things a theme reviewer should look at. The codesniffer gave some problems. The recipe found…
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Matt Mullenweg on the future of WordPress
Yesterday Matt Mullenweg wrote: “There are three main focuses this year: the REST API, the editor, and the customizer. For the REST API we’re going to work on getting first party wp-admin usage of the new endpoints, and hopefully replace all of the core places where we still use admin-ajax. The editor will endeavour to…