Themes for WordPress Repository.

fastwp
(@fastwp)

9 years, 4 months ago

Hi, we are looking to develop some free premium themes for WordPress repository. We did not have any previous experience with WordPress repository requirements so i would like some clarification.
1. We are allowed to use shortcodes / and shortcode generators ?
2. Including visual builders as plugins it’s permited ?
3. Using Redux Framework for Theme options and including it as plugin is ok ?
4. How long is the approval time currently ?

Thank you

FastWP Team.

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Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)
(@sterndata)

Volunteer Forum Moderator

9 years, 4 months ago

I suggest you read here https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/release/theme-review-guidelines/ and here https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/
Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

9 years, 4 months ago
I’ll take a shot at answering these questions.
1. I don’t believe so as shortcodes are plugin territory.
2. Nope. Themes in the WordPress repo can suggest the inclusion of plugins but can’t require it and can’t include it.
3. Nope. See item 2.
4. I believe the current turn around is 5 months.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
Moderator Jose Castaneda
(@jcastaneda)

THEME COFFEE MONKEY

9 years, 4 months ago

Hi @fastwp

Awesome you want to share your themes with the community. Yes, as mentioned above all those things are true. No plugin territory things, you can recommend plugins but they must be from the repo, if the theme has theme-options it must use the customizer API in order to register/get them.

As for the wait time this can vary. If you look at https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/2 this shows you all the themes that have been submitted. This gives you an idea of about how long it will take for a reviewer to pick it up. Once that is reviewed, it gets approved and then an admin takes over. That queue is https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/24

There are some reviewers who are capable of setting the theme live without having to go through the admin side but more often than not they choose to have a second set of eyes.

As Steve pointed out the requirements are: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/

If you do have other questions you can always pop on to the themereview Slack channel.

If you really want to learn more though, what I recommend is doing at least one review to get a better understanding of how it works.

Let us know if that helps!