Archeo: Submit to dotorg checklist

[MaggieCabrera]

The only warnings for Archeo from the theme check plugin are:

WARNING: screenshot.jpg is 726.1 KB in size. Large file sizes have a negative impact on website performance and loading time. Compress images before using them.
WARNING: assets/images/chahk.png is 1.4 MB in size. Large file sizes have a negative impact on website performance and loading time. Compress images before using them.

• Fix warnings
• Bump version to 1.0.0 Archeo: bump version #5668
• Check changelog
• Patch Archeo: Remove text decoration from post titles #5573
• Ship it! https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/115279

[kjellr]

WARNING: screenshot.jpg is 726.1 KB in size. Large file sizes have a negative impact on website performance and loading time. Compress images before using them.
WARNING: assets/images/chahk.png is 1.4 MB in size. Large file sizes have a negative impact on website performance and loading time. Compress images before using them.

The top warning should be addressed in #5598. Unfortunately, chalk.png is about as small as it can get while retaining its usage at that large size. So we'll need to just ignore that second warning for now.

[MaggieCabrera]

I want to remember that we had trouble in the past when we had too many images or too big ones on dotcom. Maybe we could make the background of chahk.png be the same color as the background of the site and make it a jpg?

[kjellr]

I considered that (as well as using PNG-8 with a background-color-hinted border), but if folks change the background of the site it looks very poor immediately. That'll be frustrating for folks, and will also be weird if/when we implement alternate Styles. In any case, I'll take one more pass at exporting it next week just in case I missed an option last time around.

[kjellr]

Update: I got a little closer towards reducing the file size by refining the cutout edges. I'm going to continue working on it tomorrow. 👍

[MaggieCabrera]

Awesome @kjellr ! Just a heads up because I'm building the headstart for skatepark and I encountered this. The limit for theme images on dotcom:

[ ] Please Fix: https://skateparkdemo.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/13900064573_0b24c944f5_k.jpg is too large 700 kb (greater than 350 kb). Resize the image.

[kjellr]

I've pushed #5635 to update this one. I don't think we will need to actually adhere to the 350kb limit for the Chahk image on WP.com because it is in the template itself — it won't need to be pulled in via headstart.

[MaggieCabrera]

I've pushed #5635 to update this one. I don't think we will need to actually adhere to the 350kb limit for the Chahk image on WP.com because it is in the template itself — it won't need to be pulled in via headstart.

Very true!

[mikachan]

Archeo is now available here! https://wordpress.org/themes/archeo/