Millions of websites depend on the WordPress.org infrastructure every day. Parts of it is almost a decade old, ancient in software terms, and most of it is not even based on WordPress itself. At the time of WordCamp San Antonio, we will hopefully have finished a project that drastically modernizes the theme repository and moves to over to a WordPress installation, complete with a redesigned front-end and a more robust backend. This session will go over the changes involved, and will look into how WordPress.org works and what the underlying structure of it looks like.

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The Theme Directory
WordCamp San Antonio

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WordPress.org

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Network of Networks.

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Plugin/Theme Repository

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The Themes Downloader

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// Just. Don’t. Ask.

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The Themes Downloader
• Figures out the correct version.
• Checks the files out from SVN.
• Zips up the package and saves it.
• Serves the zip file.

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The Themes API

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The Themes API
• Two endpoints with various “actions”.
• No documentation.
• No tests.
• Every single WordPress site depending on it.

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The Themes API
• Still no tests.
• Based on WordPress now. Yay!

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feature_list
List of valid theme tags.

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hot_tags
Theme tags ordered by popularity.

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theme_information
Specific data for a single theme.

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query_themes
List of themes with specific data.

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The Theme Directory

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Putting it All Together
WordPress Themes API
Theme Directory Plugin
Themes Downloader
WP.org Directory Theme
Themes Trac
Themes SVN

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Demo!

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Still to Do
• Move ratings system to WordPress.
• Internationalize Themes API.
• Some mobile layout adjustments.
• Test!

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Halp!

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wordpress.org/themesnew
Location of the new Theme Directory.

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meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/745
Ticket to report bugs.

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make.wordpress.org/meta
Blog to follow for updates.

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URLs
• https://wordpress.org/themesnew/
• https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/745
• https://make.wordpress.org/meta/

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Konstantin Obenland
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konstantin.obenland.it

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Questions?
Automattic?
Themes?
WordPress.org?
WordPress.com?
Hooks?
Actions?
Filters?
Getting started?
PHP?CSS?
Germany?
Travel?
Contributing?
Documentation?
WordCamps?
Plugin Development?
Languages?
Translations?
SVN?
Core?
Cain & Obenland?
Default Themes?
Trac?
Template Tags?
_s?
Underscores?
Themes API?
Feature Plugins?
Code Formatting?