Inside WordPress.org Theme Review Team: Money, Abuse and Inconsistent Leadership
This post is about the Team Review Team (TRT) at WordPress.org, which I am (still) a small part of. I would like to address some weird things that have been going on lately in this team and what it looks like from a distance. I might be burning some bridges with this post, but if someone needs to take “one for the team”, so be it.
The Basics of WordPress.org Theme Repository
With 4,860 of free themes (at the time of writing this), the official WordPress.org Theme Repository (short: “repository”) is the first thing that any WordPress adopter sees and is probably one of the main reasons why WordPress grew to what it is today.
You can sort the themes in the repository by 3 main filters: Featured, Popular, Latest.
Latest (Themes)
Latest is pretty straightforward: the newest themes are at the top, the oldest themes are at the bottom. I believe that this page is not very useful to end-users, as a theme’s usefulness doesn’t depend on how new it is, 1 week old or 3 months old.
Featured (Themes)
Featured is the starting page for the Themes Repository, this is what users see first.
Contrary to popular belief the themes are not screened or moderated in any way.
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15675/inside-wordpress-org-theme-review-team-money-abuse-and-inconsistent-leadership
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