WordPress Theme Directory

On Wednesday, WordPress executive director Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted the next steps forward for themes and reviews for the official … Continue reading Upcoming Changes and Steps for an Overhauled WordPress Theme Review System →

The WordPress.org theme directory is becoming little more than a crippleware distributor. I suppose it was inevitable given its reach, … Continue reading Upsells, Barriers, and the End/Beginning of the Quality $free Themes Era →

Yesterday, the featured themes page was quietly removed from the WordPress theme directory. Previously, it was the primary page users … Continue reading Goodbye Featured Themes, For Now →

If you’ve ever wondered how the WordPress Theme Directory identifies and ranks the themes that display under the popular tab, … Continue reading Controversy Surrounding WordPress.org “Popular” Themes Exposes Weaknesses in the Algorithm →

The WordPress Theme Directory will soon be rolling out new and updated tags for filtering the 3,800+ free themes hosted … Continue reading New and Updated Theme Tags Now Available to WordPress.org Theme Authors →

One of the main items on the agenda for the Theme Review Team this week was to finalize what type … Continue reading WordPress Theme Review Team Votes on New Guidelines to Ban Obtrusive Upselling →

The admin themes browser has been updated and modernized in recent years to make it easier to search through the … Continue reading WordPress 4.6 to Update Theme Filter Tags in the Admin →

Earlier this year, the WordPress plugin directory was redesigned. As part of the redesign, download counts were replaced with the … Continue reading The WordPress Theme Directory Replaces Download Counts With the Number of Active Installs →

The WordPress Theme Review Team (TRT) is currently seeking feedback via three separate surveys on the review process, themes, and … Continue reading WordPress Theme Review Team Seeks Feedback on the Review Process, Themes, and the Directory →

WordPress.org is making strides towards fully localizing the project’s official theme and plugin directories. Dion Hulse posted this morning that … Continue reading WordPress.org is Testing International Theme and Plugin Directories →

Aaron Jorbin, who contributes to WordPress core on a regular basis, has published a script called WordPress Theme Directory Slurper. … Continue reading Data Shows 24% of Themes Hosted on WordPress.org Support the Customizer →

WordPress.org launched a new design for the Theme Directory just over a month ago and the meta team has continued … Continue reading WordPress Theme Directory Improvements Boost User Engagement, Commercial Themes Page Still Recovering →