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1 11 November 2014 IMPACT HUB BUCHAREST

2 The Road To Wordpress Themes Guidelines and Plugins

4 WHY?

5 FIRST LEARNING THE RIGHT WAY! Lack of knowledge Doing it wrong Refresh your knowledges

6 FIRST LEARNING THE RIGHT WAY! Professional feedback

7 SECOND VISIBILITY Stand out from the crowd EMIL UZELAC Leads WordPress 4.1 development team Theme: RESPONSIVE the most popular theme on wordpres.org/themes, after 3 months from publishing it theme was bought by CyberChimps

8 THIRD Give something back to community!

9 GUIDELINES

10 GUIDELINES REQUIRED RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

11 GUIDELINES REQUIRED Theme files: index.php style.css screenshot.png comments.php

12 Theme Name Theme URI Author Author URI Description Version License License URI Text domain Tags GUIDELINES REQUIRED style.css CORE CSS CLASSES Alignment: alignleft, alignright, aligncenter Caption related: wp-caption, wp-caption-text, gallery-caption Post classes: sticky Comment Classes: bypostauthor Should explicitly declare the copyright and release lincense information, along with the license for any bundled resources

13 GUIDELINES REQUIRED screenshot.png Max size 880x660 Reasonable facsimile of the Theme after it is initially activated with default options

14 GUIDELINES REQUIRED index.php comments.php <html> <head> </head> <body> </body> </html> wp_head(); THE WORDPRESS LOOP wp_footer(); comments_template(); wp_list_comments(); comment_form(); wp_enque_script( comment-reply );

15 GUIDELINES REQUIRED support for no more then one version below; now -> 3.8 no hard coding. Use instead the hooks, filters and functions parameters to modify content fonts, styles and scripts are enqueued in functions.php

16 RECOMMENDED Themes are recommended not to implement custom favicon functionality. If implemented, favicon functionality is required to be opt-in, and disabled by default. If implemented, favicon functionality is required to support user-defined favicon images.

17 RECOMMENDED Theme files: 404.php archive.php page.php search.php single.php header.php footer.php sidebar.php If login form is used: wp_login_form(); If search form is used: get_search_form();

18 OPTIONAL - advices form your theme reviewer

19 PLUGIN: Theme Check By Pross, Otto42

20 define('wp_debug', true);

22 GETTING YOUR THEME ON WORDPRESS

23 Set up an account & upload your theme

24 IMPORTANT Make things right from the beginning! Theme recheck means going through all the checking points, including those already passed by previous checks! All reviewers are checking themes in their free time! A theme check could take from one week to one month or more, depending on reviewer's availability and theme's compliance with the WordPress guidelines!

Become a Reviewer https://make.wordpress.org/themes/ no minimum hours required! you ll get a mentor!

25 Become a Reviewer no minimum hours required! you ll get a mentor! you can ask help from everyone! NEED to be willing to learn and help! NEED to give some of your time to this job! NEED to be responsible and to love doing this!

26 Recap Some Steps Follow the guidelines! Code like a Pro! Verify your theme before publishing! Theme Check - Have some patience and be respectful! Do it for the people!

27 /kulsite kulsite Negoita Alexandru THANK

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