Add a report theme button

[acosmin]

Hi! Over at TRT we're trying to loosen up our requirements, but we need someway for normal users to get in contact with us if they find major issues in themes (like malware or white screen PHP errors).

A way to do this is through a report button. I'm not expecting a contact form, just a simple message and a button, like in the attached image. The button would just need to link like so:
<a href="mailto:themereviewteam@mail.com?Subject=ThemeName%20Username

Where ThemeName and Username can be easily added with some php.

Thanks, it would be highly appreciated if this can be done.

[tobifjellner]

You may also specify a template message in the body that will hint the user to what information would be good to include in the text.

[acosmin]

Another way would be for us to create a contact form on make.themes and the report button will link to it. We could also populate the fields with some parameters like username and email address.

Here is a test draft (for those with access to make.themes): ​https://make.wordpress.org/themes/?page_id=5141&g5141-message=SomethingHere (this can be the link on the button)

Where g5141-message is the textarea. We have some possibilities here.

[dd32]

Replying to acosmin:

Another way would be for us to create a contact form on make.themes and the report button will link to it. We could also populate the fields with some parameters like username and email address.

I think this might actually be the simplest and most straight forward first iteration. I don't think it'd last forever, but would likely serve the immediate need.

What details would you want to include? I'm thinking that adding a few extra data points is probably relatively easy and likely to significantly increase review effectiveness.

• Theme Name
• Theme URL
• Latest Trac ticket
• ??

[acosmin]

@dd32 thank you for taking a look over this.

We'll just need the Theme URL, something like https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/. Browse the Code contains all the info we need.

I'm not sure if we should or shouldn't make the report button visible only to logged in users. In this case we could populate the Name and Email fields with the current logged in user's info. If the user is logged in, it would be helpful to make these fields type="hidden", the problem is Jetpack hasn't this attribute and I don't have access to post javascript :) it would be easy to hide.

If we're allowing non logged in users, then we're just going to keep the Name and Email fields visible, required and not populated...

[acosmin]

Current fields and their IDs are:

Name: rep-name
Email: rep-email
Theme URL: rep-theme
Subject: rep-subject

[acosmin]

@dd32 I tried to make the code for the report button:

<div class="theme-report">
        <h4><?php _e( 'Report', 'wporg-themes' ); ?></h4>
        <p><?php _e( 'Does this theme have major issues?', 'wporg-themes' ); ?></p>
        <?php
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $report_url = add_query_arg( 
                array(
                        'rep-name'    => is_user_logged_in() ? $current_user->ID : null,
                        'rep-email'   => is_user_logged_in() ? $current_user->user_email : null,
                        'rep-theme'   => 'https://wordpress.org/themes/' . $theme->slug . '/',
                        'rep-subject' => esc_attr( __( 'Reported Theme: ', 'wporg-themes' ) . $theme->name )
                ),
                '//make.wordpress.org/themes/report-theme/' 
        );
        ?>
        <a rel="nofollow" href="<?php echo esc_url( $report_url ); ?>" class="button button-secondary"><?php _e( 'Report this theme', 'wporg-themes' ); ?></a>
</div><!-- .theme-report -->

I think the class name .theme-report will also need to be added next to .theme-support, in the stylesheet. It has a font-size style from what I can see. Or we can just use the theme-support class name.

Preferably, this piece of html should be added before or after theme-support div, just so it gets noticed.

[acosmin]

I did publish the page, no harm in doing it, you can check it here: ​https://make.wordpress.org/themes/report-theme/

All that remains is to add the button :)

[acosmin]

I don't know if I'm allowed to use the Customizer > Additional CSS section, but I would like to add 2 or 3 lines of CSS:

.page-id-5141 .contact-form > div:nth-child(3), 
.page-id-5141 .contact-form > div:nth-child(4), 
.page-id-5141.logged-in .contact-form > div:nth-child(-n+2), 
.page-id-5141.logged-in .entry-content > hr:first-child { display: none; }
.page-id-5141 .pushbutton-wide { padding: 1.2em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: 700 }

[acosmin]

@dd32 any help with this would be really appreciated :)

[dd32]

In 7272:

Theme Directory: Add a 'Report this theme' button.

Fixes #3626

[dd32]

In 7273:

Theme Directory: Bump script/stylesheet versions following [7272].

See #3626

[dd32]

Deployed something for you.

Notes:

• Using themes@ w.org as the destination.
• Can't pre-fill user details other than the username
• Name / Email fields are shown on the report page
• Subject field is shown on the report page as otherwise it doesn't have any reference to what is being reported.

Maybe in a future iteration of this the landing page for reporting could be more than a form and remove most of the above caveats.