[theme-reviewers] Theme Review Guidelines

[Chip Bennett]

The handbook version of the Guidelines are not official. The official
Guidelines are the ones maintained by the Theme Review Team.

As for things in the "Recommended" list being "Required" depending on the
situation: that's true. But to try to write explicit Guidelines that cover
all situations would result in really, really long and detailed Guidelines.
As I often say: we want to avoid emulating the Code of Federal Regulations.
:)


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are there any plans to improve and update the theme guidelines?
>
> It seems like someone from the docs team created a simplified version. I
> find this a lot easier to browse.
>
> https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/
>
> The recommended page needs the most love as there are stuff there that are
> required too depending on the situation.
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-recommended/
>
>
> On 29 January 2014 14:02, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is True. Many Reviews, are based on mostly visual checks. Code
>> is not checked at all.
>>
>> Looking forward to the February changes. Really hope that it resolves the
>> problem, i talked about.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:59:36 -0500
>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>>
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Guidelines
>>
>> The latter point will be addressed in the February program changes.
>>
>> But as a general note: any Theme that has a generated ticket has already
>> passed the critical/required tests in Theme Check (otherwise, the Theme
>> would fail the upload checks). From that point, Theme Check is only a tool
>> for the reviewer, to help point out areas for further scrutiny. Dumping
>> Theme Check output in review ticket comments is almost always redundant,
>> confusing, and unnecessary.
>>
>> Based on most of the "approved" tickets I've been auditing, I suspect
>> that several reviewers are reviewing Themes without ever looking at any of
>> the Themes' code.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com>wrote:
>>
>> Yup. I always try to keep up with the Review Guidelines. Also, the Theme
>> Emphasis Points are a Great Help. I would recommened that to everyone, as
>> they will resolve most issues for tickets which are re-opened.
>>
>> But, I see many new reviewers are picking up themes in bulk and just
>> running Theme Checks, checking the license and approving theme. This is a
>> bad practice, and seems to look like an attempt to misuse the Review
>> Incentive Feature.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rohit Tripathi
>> Administrator
>> InkHive.com
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:30:21 -0600
>> From: emil at uzelac.me
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme Review Guidelines
>>
>>
>> No problem thank you :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Emil.
>> If anybody needs a second eye I try to make myself available when I can.
>> I'm sure most others feel the same way.
>>
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