[theme-reviewers] Draft Theme Development Checklist

[Chip Bennett]

So, it appears that the WXR exporter issue is known, and fixed in 3.0.1, which 
is expected to drop Monday (hopefully). I will either wait until then, or 
install the nightly build on my Theme Review test site, in order to generate 
the updated WXR.

But first, to finish up with Ian's recommended additions. I'll probably send 
out a link for review, to make sure what I have is what we want.

-- 
Chip Bennett
chip at chipbennett.net
www.chipbennett.net

On Friday 23 July 2010 5:27:30 pm Chip Bennett wrote:
> I'm planning to finish up my tasks this weekend.
> 
> One question/idea I just thought of: is there any way we can put the WXR
> file on SVN, so that we can maintain it? I'm happy to get it into shape,
> but others may have other improvements, too (see Ian's suggestion to
> improve on the gallery post).
> 
> If we could somehow use SVN for collaboration/version control, and then
> link the controlled version to the Codex, that would be pretty cool.
> 
> Also, the WXR exporter seems to be throwing "headers already sent" errors
> for me. I'm searching Google, but if anyone knows of any known issues with
> the exporter, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > >> Whatever the case, we need to consolidate the Theme-
> > >> Development focused pages around the Codex - and this would be a good
> > >> opportunity to do so.
> > 
> > Another update for everyone on the Theme Development Codex updates.
> > We're almost there. :)
> > 
> > > Here are the pages that now need attention.
> > > 
> > > 1. /Theme_Development
> > 
> > This page is done. I added several new sections and did a ton of
> > cleanup. I clarified with the WP Docs mailing list members that this
> > page is not for beginners, and that we should assume basic web
> > design/development knowledge.
> > 
> > Lorelle encouraged us to point absolute beginners to:
> > - http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
> > - http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress
> > 
> > > 2. /Theme_Review
> > 
> > This page is 99% done. The content looks good, and Joseph updated the
> > related WordPress.org pages to point here.
> > 
> > TODO
> > - [Cais] Still needs copyediting and cleanup
> > 
> > > 3. /Theme_Unit_Test
> > 
> > This page is 90% done, the main thing missing are the additions to add
> > to the test data suggested by Ian Stewart. I put his suggestions into
> > a TODO section at the bottom of the page.
> > 
> > TODO
> > - [Chip] Add Ian's suggested items to the test data
> > - [Chip] Create WXR and SQL files
> > - [Lance] Add new test data files to SVN repo and update links
> > 
> > > 4. /Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release
> > 
> > To be honest, I'm not sure what to do about this page. Do we really
> > need it? The tone almost sounds like it should be on someone's
> > personal blog, not the Codex. My suggestion is to take anything
> > valuable from it and merge it into Theme_Review, then redirect it
> > there. But, if you feel it has value on its own we can just leave it
> > for now.
> > 
> > Do you agree that we should get rid of it?
> > 
> > -Lance
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