new tools for theme developers: theme sniffer plugin and automated accessibility testing – wordpress tavern

WordPress contributor teams have shipped several new tools for theme developers in the couple weeks.   Theme Sniffer plugin is effort from Theme Review team that uses custom sniffs for PHP CodeSniffer to test theme against WordPress coding standards and check for PHP version compatibility...   The plugin is useful for both theme reviewers and developers who want to get their themes approved for the WordPress org directory.   It includes several optional standards to test against beyond the ruleset for theme review requirements.   Passing Theme Sniffer checks is not required for themes entering the directory except reviewers can use the plugin to speed the process up..   The Accessibility Team also published tool called WP Theme Auditor that runs Axe tests against theme for automated accessibility feedback.   By the accessibility experts at, Axe is library and testing created Deque.   By default and developers can specify different test environment, The tests are run against http one wordpress test URL..   The Accessibility team plans to expand the test cases in the tool to include all the content from Theme Unit Test Data package.   In the team meeting, they decided to recommend WP Theme Auditor as WordPress testing tool and plan to post more details about it on the make wordpress org accessibility blog..   Read more