When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I?m going to rephrase and repurpose that line:
Now is the time for great theme developers to come to the aid of their community.
The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time we?ve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but haven?t really opened it up as much as we?d like. Time to rip off the band-aid and take some action, I?m asking for more community members to come and help with the process of reviewing themes for the directory.
Right now this is a bit like a New Year?s resolution to excercise every day, it?s what we need to do, but we?re still figuring out exactly how it will all work. And that?s part of the community involvement as well, I expect that those who come and help will also shape the process.
What?s involved in reviewing themes for the directory? There are the obvious things, you should be familiar with PHP and WordPress theme code (and the theme development checklist), with an eye for security issues. Also the ability to setup a separate install of the latest version of WordPress to test submitted themes with.
Hopefully a few people reading this right now are saying to themselves: I?d love to help, how do I to get started? Send in a subscription request to the อีเมลนี้จะถูกป้องกันจากสแปมบอท แต่คุณต้องเปิดการใช้งานจาวาสคริปก่อน email list – http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers ? and we?ll get you hooked up!
Read more: http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/expanding-the-theme-review-experiment/