This past month saw a lot of preparation for upcoming events and releases across the WordPress project. Read on to find out more about these plans, and everything else that happened around the community in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 27 2018, WordPress will turn 15 years old<\/a> \u2014 this is a huge milestone for the project, or, indeed, for any open-source platform. The Community Team has been hard at work helping communities around the world plan local anniversary parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check the central anniversary website<\/a> to see if there\u2019s already a party being planned near you. These parties are all organized by local communities \u2014 if there\u2019s no local community in your area, you can start one today<\/a> and host a party yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Gutenberg, the upcoming WordPress content editor, in rapid development, a lot of people have been wondering how they will convert their existing plugins to work with the new features. To mitigate the issues here and help people overcome any migration hurdles, a Gutenberg Migration Guide is underway<\/a> to assist developers with making their code Gutenberg-compatible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019d like to contribute to this guide, you can review the existing documentation on GitHub<\/a> and open a new issue<\/a> if you find something to add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reviews of themes submitted to the Theme Directory can take quite a while to complete. In order to combat this issue and to make the theme submission process smoother for everyone, the Theme Review Team is introducing a Trusted Authors Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This program will allow frequent and reliable theme authors to apply for trusted status, allowing them to upload themes more frequently and to have their themes automatically approved. This will allow more high-quality themes to be added to the directory, as well as recognize the hard work that authors put in to build their themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to get involved with reviewing themes, you can read their getting started guide<\/a>, follow the team blog<\/a> and join the #themereview channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWork has Started on a Gutenberg Migration Guide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Theme Review Team Launches Trusted Authors Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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