Describes how to contribute to WordPress Community by joining the WordPress Theme Review Team, how to perform a Theme Review and what to do after finishing the review.

2. Contributing
To
WordPress Theme
Review
Pratik Lal Shrestha
Catch Themes
Sweta Shrestha
Catch Themes
Suwash
Kunwar
WEN Solutions

3. WordPress Theme Review
Team?
http://make.wordpress.org/themes

4. Why Join WPTRT?
Stop Complaining
Start Reviewing

5. How Do I Join?
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/handb
ook/about/join-the-team/

6. How Do I Join?
1.Register User Profile in WordPress.org
2.Subscribe to Blog
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/
3.Read Theme Review Handbook
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handb
ook/

7. How Do I Join?
4. Join the #themereview Slack
channel.
http://chat.wordpress.org
https://wordpress.slack.com/
5. Attend Weekly Meetings
Tuesday 18:00 UTC ( 11:45 pm NPT):
Team Meeting

8. Setting Up?

9. Environment
http://make.wordpress.org/meta/handbook/abo
ut/get-involved/setting-up-your-machine
MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP, VVV

10. Theme Unit Test
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
Install WordPress Importer Plugin & Import test
data
https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/theme-
unit-test-data. xml

11. wp-config.php
Set WP_DEBUG to ‘true’
define('WP_DEBUG", true);

12. Plugins
Developer Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/developer
Install the Following Plugins
- Theme Check
- Regenerate Thumbnails
- RTL Tester
- Monster Widgets
- Debug Bar

13. Get a Ticket
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/
Click “Review A Theme” button in the right
sidebar
New reviewers can only get one open ticket at a
time

14. Review Workflow

15. Required (Automated)
1. No shortcodes, no custom post types and no
custom taxonomies
2. No removing or modifying non-presentational
hooks
3. Disabling the admin tool bar
4. Themes are required to declare their license
explicitly using the license and license uri header
slugs to style.css
5. Multiple/Missing/Incorrect Textdomain

16. Required
1. License
2. Security And Privacy
3. Customizer API (Removal of Custom Theme
Options)
4. Readme
5. Screenshot
6. Plugins Territory
7. Styles and Scripts
8. header.php, footer.php
9. Code
10. Selling, credits and links
11. Others

17. Recommendation
1. Backwards compatibility
2. Theme documentation
3. Accessibility
4. Theme unit test
5. Theme Check plugin info notices
6. Design Issues

18. Post Review in Ticket
1. Hello and the welcome wrapper
2. Write your output - Required - Recommendation -
Info and Notes
3. What Next
- If theme meets all Requirements, then set it as
Approve
- If theme doesn’t meets all Requirements
- Ask to fix it and upload new version
- Leave the ticket open
- Close the ticket as Not Approved only when theme
author doesn’t response within 7 days
4. Then Theme Review Admin/Key Reviewer will check
your review and either push live or reopen if issues are
found

19. What Next
Promotion to WordPress Theme Reviewer
Learn the Queues
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org
Updates & New
Start Reviewing Independently

20. Contribute in other ways
1.Theme Check Plugin -
https://github.com/Otto42/theme-check
1.Talk about Theme Review in Meetups and
WordCamps

21. Thanks, any questions?
Email: pratik@catchthemes.com
Slack: pratikshrestha
Email: wensolution@gmail.com
Slack: wensolutions
Email: sweta@catchthemes.com
Slack: catchthemes