Beyond the Guidelines: Theme Development Best Practices (Volume I)

As Theme developers become more accustomed to the Theme Review Guidelines, the overall quality of WordPress.org repository-hosted Themes has improved tremendously. However, ample opportunity for continual improvement remains. As the Theme Review Team continues to refine and improve the Guidelines with each new WordPress release, I believe that we can work together with the Theme developer community proactively to implement community-standard best practices. In this presentation, I will discuss areas for such best practices, including Theme inline documentation, proper copyright attribution and copyright declaration, Child-Theme readiness, proper enqueueing of scripts and stylesheets, and a few, other miscellaneous areas.