March 9, 2023 — Several WordPress community theme developers and designers come together to discuss the Community Themes Initiative. The goal was to lay the groundwork and hash out ideas around building block themes collaboratively to submit to the official WordPress theme directory.

July 29, 2021 — The themes team wants theme authors to participate and provide their feedback in this new guideline. As this guideline will be directly related with theme authors and we want to know how they will take it.

Also, this will give an opportunity to the theme author to get involved in making new guidelines based on their ideas as well.