Greg - SiteOrigin

The Theme Checklist plugin is an unofficial tool to help developers get their theme ready for the WordPress.org theme directory. Install the plugin, then navigate to Tools > Theme Checklist to start checking.
We’ve compiled a some of the most common theme issues that we see in the theme review queue and put them on our site, <a href="http://themechecklist.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Checklist</a>. This plugin simply loads in all the latest checks and gives you an easy interface to check off the issues as you check them in your own theme. Each issue has a detailed description with examples to help you avoid the them in your own theme.
Checks are dynamically loaded from the <a href="http://themechecklist.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Checklist</a> website to ensure you’re always working with the latest version of the checks. If this fails, the plugin will fall back to the bundled checks in checks.json.

Theme Checklist

The Theme Checklist plugin is an unofficial tool to help developers get their theme ready for the WordPress.org theme directory.

Nick Halsey

Widget areas are great opportunities to stimulate content discovery on your site. The featured image gallery widget makes this process visual, automatically showing the featured images for all of the posts on a given view (archives, taxonomy terms, etc.) in one place. The widget is only displayed on views with multiple posts, and uses the same styling as the core gallery widget.

Featured Image Gallery Widget

Widget areas are great opportunities to stimulate content discovery on your site. The featured image gallery widget makes this process visual, automat …

Theme Checklist vs Featured Image Gallery Widget