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HELLO!
I am your host, Mizanur Rahaman Mizan.
I am from Chittagong, Bangladesh!
• WordPressian since 2010, full time WordPress Professional since
2012.
• Former Lecturer of CSE at University of Information Technology
and Sciences. You guessed it right! I am a Computer Science and
Engineering Post Grad.
• Developing WordPress Theme and Plugin under our business
named TechnoCrews and ThemeRally since 2015.

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How to Contribute
Things we can do in WP.Org
Repository

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We can!
• Voluntarily
• Support others in the support forum
• Submit Theme and Plugins
• Review Theme and Plugins

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What we need?
In order to contribute

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We need …
• A wordpress.org account ( easy peasy eh!)
• For helping in the support forum, we need supportive mind and patience to
read. Trust me it might be enough to help!
• To review and submit item, let’s go to the next slide to learn briefly.

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What we need?
For submitting items

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For submitting theme & Plugins,
• You need a Theme/Plugins.
• Your item must have to be GPL compatible.
• Properly escaped and sanitized
• Translatable.
• Error free

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How to achieve that? (theme)
• There is a special guideline to submit a Theme. Please check
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/
• Also Slack channel at wordpress.slack.com #themereview
• Make sure to have all the testing data and tools.
Tools available : https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/release/testing/

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Tools you should have ..
• Theme Sniffer or Similar one ( Very Essential)
• Theme Check
• Translation Creator
• Validation
• Debug Bar ( Not necessary though)

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Tips from Me
• Make sure your theme is GPL Compatible (important)
• Your Screenshot is important
• No branding please
• Be careful how you license and use third party libraries.
• Always submit items reviewing by yourself multiple times so it doesn’t have any
visible errors or common errors. If you do so, you could be a candidate for trusted
authors.
• Remember, item code also checked manually.

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For submitting item ( Plugins)
• Plugins is comparatively easier to get approval. Details are available here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/
• You need to be familiar with Subversion system as plugin need to be
submitted using subversion.
• All theme check issues must be addressed.
• Plus make sure there is no malicious code and PHP error.

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Ultimate Tips from me!
• Go with minimal feature.
• Once Item is approved, increase feature as you won’t be in queue to update
items. (hey still you can’t put any TOS violated things)
• Make translation file for your item properly.

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Submitting items..
• Make the compressed version of the theme.
• Theme is very easy. Login to your WP.Org account.
• Go to: https://wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/
• Just upload
• Remember, each time you make change, you just change the version of your theme to a new
one!
• If you have asked for correction, correct and re-upload.
• Repeat, the process until you are approved.
• Plugins has similar structure ( Only difference you upload through subversioning tools)

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What we need?
For reviewing items

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Remember,
• Anyone can review items.
• It helps a lot.
• Make sure you have:
• Know all the guideline to review items.
• Theme Check tools
• You know how translation file works.
• Common PHP error idea and solutions
• Patience
• We need more reviewers as it is voluntary work.

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What you need to review
• Learn all the reviewing guideline:
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/
• Request reviewing an item:
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/request-a-theme-to-review/
• Check the item and verdict accordingly.

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Tools.
• I will list most of the tools required in my website at:
www.mizpress.com/wordcamp-pokhara-2018
• A Video on the review process will be added in the website in same page.

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Reach me at:
• www.mizpress.com
• Email: mizan@technocrews.com
• FB: fb.me/mrmbdctg
• Twitter: mizpress

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Thanks!

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Any Question(s)?