WordPress.org Adds Plugin and Theme Reviews

by Sarah Gooding October 29^th, 2012 2 Responses

The WordPress Community Summit is currently taking place in Tybee Island, GA and the WordPress.org website is getting some attention, as attendees discuss ways to improve WordPress. They’ve launched Make-Meta for collaborating on new features and improvements for WordPress.org.

The most exciting announcement of the day is the addition of a new feature: Reviews for Plugins and Themes. Reviews will now be tied to ratings so that in order to add a rating to a plugin or theme, you will be required to provide a review.

Multisite Themes, Themes

Round 2: Comprehensive Review of 6 More Popular WordPress Premium Theme Frameworks

by Clifford Paulick October 18^th, 2012 48 Responses

Last updated: 11:35 am Eastern Time on October 18, 2012

About this Theme Review
This is the much anticipated Round 2 of the WordPress Premium Theme Framework Comparison, which has dozens of valuable comments appreciating the WPMU DEV review, correcting errors (that I then updated in the post), telling me how I skipped that person’s favorite one, and asking for additional insights. That’s exactly what I want this one, Round 2, to be.

To be clear, my goals in comparing themes in this table format are to:

WordPress Premium Theme Framework Review - Round 2

Multisite Showcase, Multisite Themes, Themes

Comprehensive Review of 7 of the Most Popular WordPress Premium Theme Frameworks

by Clifford Paulick July 30^th, 2012 114 Responses

Last updated: 9:45 am Eastern Time on December 12, 2012
(Also see Round 2)

About this Theme Review
When looking for a theme framework, I want to make sure it can handle any project that comes my way. I want to know my chosen theme framework inside and out. I don’t want to have to pick Genesis for this, Elegant Themes for that, and PageLines when “X”. I want to know it will work with MultiSite and popular plugins. I want page loading optimized, the ability to choose responsive or not, and a solid support channel for when I need help or want to flesh out some ideas.

PageLines, Thesis, Genesis, Headway Themes, Catalyst Theme, Elegant Themes, WooThemes

Community, Development, Plugins, Themes

How to Test Your WordPress Theme and Make Sure It’s Up to Standards

by Sarah Gooding January 3^rd, 2011 2 Responses

Did you know that the WordPress Theme Review Team uses some automated testing tools to make sure that themes are up to standards before putting them in the WordPress repository? Now you can use those same automated tests to check on your theme by installing the Theme-Check plugin. The tests will verify that your theme meets the theme review guidelines.

Community, Development, Miscellaneous, News, Themes

Theme Review Process Updated for WordPress Theme Directory

by Sarah Gooding August 25^th, 2010 Leave a comment

During the past few months many changes have come to the Theme Review process and scope for submissions to the WordPress Theme Directory. These guidelines are set in order to ensure newly submitted themes support current WordPress features and functionality. So whether you’re submitting a theme or looking to use one from this directory, you’ll know exactly what is expected for the licensing, code quality, documentation, functions and hooks, etc.