Konstantin Obenland 3:26 pm on July 12, 2016
Tags: plugin directory ( 45 )

Plugin Directory v3 Open Beta

We’ve been working on the new, WordPress-based version of the Plugin Directory and it’s at a point where the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team would like to open it up to the community to foster participation and receive feedback. You can find the latest iteration of it under the temporary URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org:

https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/

If you have commit access to a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party in the existing directory and are logged in to your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account, you also have access to the provisional developer interface.

Please keep in mind that it is by far not a finished product. There is still a lot of work to be done, mainly around front-end technology, search, and developer facing interfaces. Every decision that has been made so far is up for discussion, which is the purpose of this post. You can find a history of all previous discussions at #plugin-directory.

We’ve already received a good amount of feedback after my WCEU session on meta trac, the summary post of our last chat, and in blog posts throughout the community.

But we’re looking for more! 🙂 Please feel free to leave general feedback as comments on this post, and specific bug reports as new tickets on meta Trac (but make sure it doesn’t exist yet). The meta team will go through all feedback, derive a prioritized list of suggestions from it, and work it into the iteration schedule.

Thank you for your participation!

Varun Sridharan 3:31 pm on July 12, 2016

WOW Nice to see this. excellent 🙂
Varun Sridharan 3:33 pm on July 12, 2016

The listing in a single pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party page can have tab based menus. instead of listing all
- Max Foundry 10:23 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  I completely agree. The idea of hiding the full description doesn’t make sense to me since it is the most important information about the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
Remkus de Vries 3:37 pm on July 12, 2016

I would assume the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party icon is pulled in from the assets folder, but I don’t see that reflected here. Is that a bug or is something else going on?
- Konstantin Obenland 4:27 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  The 128×128 icon has a typo in its file name. We should probably make the new icon handler less strict on that.
  - Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:31 pm on July 12, 2016
    
    If you’re going to do that, can we make x, X, and × work?
    
    The first two are the letter x (X) and the third is the multiplication symbol × 🙂
  - Remkus de Vries 7:25 am on July 13, 2016
    
    Less strict is indeed a good idea. Thanks!
- Konstantin Obenland 4:49 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  Fixed in r3670.
Ulrich 4:15 pm on July 12, 2016
Someone is back from holiday 😀

Just a few comments
- It would be nice to dismiss the lanague notice or save the option per user
- The profile and login link is missing from the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.
- It would be nice if the featured and popluar plugins were not duplicated
- Or even show favourite plugins on the front page
- I feel “Contributors & Developers” would fit better in the sideabr.
- The pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party list page is a bit spartan. When searching for plugins I normally like to look at last updated date and author.
- Konstantin Obenland 5:03 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  It would be nice if the featured and popluar plugins were not duplicated
  
  I think it’s okay for a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to show up in both. Popularity is not something that we control and it can fluctuate.
John Blackbourn 4:38 pm on July 12, 2016

I’m really concerned about the liberal use of “Read more” links on individual pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party pages. They’re being used in order to fix the information overload problem caused by placing all the information onto one page, instead of using the tabbed interface of the current directory.

Consider that the description of a plugin is the single most important piece of information available to the user, why is this being cut off at a mere four lines of text? It should not be cut off at all. And why is the short description no longer exposed at all? If a user is seriously researching which plugins they want to use, constantly clicking “Read more” links is going to drive them crazy.

The information density of individual plugin pages in the proposed design is extremely low. The page shows four large pieces of incomplete information (description, screenshots, FAQ, changelog), whereas the existing design shows one complete piece of very important information; the plugin description.

I hate to be a negative nancy, but the proposed design attempts to make the directory prettier at the expense of information density and actual usefulness.
- Sal Ferrarello 5:10 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  +1 on tabs rather than “Read more” sections on individual pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party pages. In addition to the points John raises, we lose the ability to link to a specific section the way we can with tabs.
- Joy 7:00 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  All your points were already stated on other blog posts, but apparently ignored.
  I agree that the new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party page is very hard to read compared to the old one.
  - Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:32 pm on July 12, 2016
    
    Not ignored, please don’t make such assumptions. Obenland just got back from vacation and is still collecting and collating everything.
    - Jon Brown 2:15 am on July 14, 2016
      
      The feeling of being ignored is shared. It’s hard to see feedback has been heard and in this case a lot of it doesn’t seem to have been taken into account (bring back tabs, no read more…). I don’t see everything, or even much, so could have certainly missed it.
- kevinwhoffman 11:28 pm on July 12, 2016
  +1 Abandon the “Read more” link and return to a tabbed interface. Here is my reasoning:
  - There is not a single section of the page that is usable on page load without being expanded. If we are requiring a click to make use of any section, why not use that click on a tab and bring some much needed clarity to the interface?
  - On a single page, the sections blend together with no visual hierarchy to distinguish them.
  - There’s no way obvious way to add a direct link to a specific section (e.g. Screenshots) like you can with the tabbed system.
  - Once a “Read more” link is expanded, you must scroll a great distance to find the next section (e.g. try expanding the Description section and then finding FAQ).
  - I have major concerns regarding the Screenshots section, which I’ve outlined on this ticket: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1828#comment:1
  Instead I would like to see a tabbed interface with two improvements:
  - Load tabbed content via AJAX so a page refresh is no longer required.
  - Make the tabbed UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. responsive, perhaps by changing from horizontal to vertical tabs for mobile devices.
  - pipdig 9:11 am on July 13, 2016
    
    Yep, +1 on the tabbed layout. It works well imho
  - Mayeenul Islam 9:30 am on July 13, 2016
    
    +1 for the Tabbed layout.
  - leemon 4:33 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    +1 for the tabbed layout
- daverod 3:12 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  I felt like the Read More is going to be super-hard to format the README to get right…at least in the Tabbed format, I have some real estate to show things. Now I have to optimize for TWO cases in the readme, per section.
  
  I think the Tabbed layout is better. You’re making me click either way. At least the tabs give me a way to display a clear set of information to the user without worrying about the “excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. view” vs. “full view”.
  - Alvaro Gois dos Santos 8:45 am on August 12, 2016
    
    +1
- Brad Touesnard 3:54 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  +1 I agree with 100% of what John has said here.
- Gilbert Pellegrom 3:58 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  +1 Completely agree with John.
- Matt Shaw 4:14 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  +1 I agree as well. The read more links feel like a step backwards from the tabs which did a lot to increase real estate without feeling as cluttered.
- Phil Derksen 5:35 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  I definitely like the overall cleaner look & feel and modernization to it. Great work here.
  
  Read more expansion links
  
  I do agree with John here as well on the “read more” UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. change instead of tabs especially. As pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party authors we need as much flexibility as possible to fully communicate what our plugins do for the user to make an informed decision to continue pursuing it or not, without extra clicks.
  
  Some plugins choose to fill out this description more than others. For larger plugins I think this is especially detrimental keeping it so short before the click. Compare the initial view for WooCommerce between the existing and proposed directory. Besides going into necessary detail in the description as the user continues scrolling, the video at the top is pretty important IMO compared to only seeing the top half of a screenshot and the beginning of the FAQ in it’s place.
  
  Secondarily, I point folks directly to the changelog in various places, including the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo. I’d love to continue doing this.
  
  Front page reviews section
  
  I’m also not a big fan of how the 2 reviews on the front page work at the moment. Although I have 4.8 out of 5 stars on https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/stripe/, the one 1-star I got was the 2nd to last one. And the reviewer was pretty ridiculous and verbose. And without a “read more” expansion link in this section, that one bad review takes up a LOT of my front-page real-estate.
  
  Link to current look in case someone new reviews and kicks them off: http://screencast.com/t/aMK0NFxw0
- JRGould 10:34 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  +1 “read more” links are obscuring a lot of useful info.
- Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) 4:28 am on July 14, 2016
  
  I very strongly agree. Here’s an example from one of my plugins:
  
  https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/
  
  The FAQ and even the boring changelog should not be getting as much emphasis as the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party’s description. The majority of users don’t care at all about the changelog, and those who do likely aren’t viewing this via this interface but rather the upgrade interface in their wp-admin area.
  
  Also that the other sections collapse themselves when you expand one is also confusing. Try making your browser have a short vertical height. Now expand the plugin description and scroll so that the FAQ is at the top of your viewport. Now expand the FAQ. What you were looking at (the top of the FAQ) is completely gone from the viewport as the collapsing of the description has pulled the FAQ way up the page.
  
  I like where it’s going overall but there’s some serious usability issues right now. 🙂
- Prasad Nevase 7:08 am on July 14, 2016
  
  Welcome back Obenland 🙂
  
  Positives of this design:
  1) All info is available without page reload unlike earlier tabbed interface.
  2) Its clean and more appealing than earlier UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.
  
  Negatives of this design:
  1) You are shown some part of info and then need to click on “read more”.
  2) The page runs too long.
  
  Suggestion:
  1) Implementing it as accordion with “Description” section expanded by default.
  2) Going back to tabbed UI but without page reload.
- Piet Bos 7:45 am on July 14, 2016
  
  I agree with everything John says.
  On top of that search still seems broken.
- Tracy Levesque 12:11 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  +1 for tabs vs. “Read More” I really like the refresh, but all the Read Mores make it harder to digest all of that information on one page.
- Max Foundry 10:25 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  +1 here. This is the biggest thing to fix in my opinion outside of trying to understand who gets to be profiled on the main pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party page.
edanzer 4:48 pm on July 12, 2016

Hey Konstantin and all…

Been intending to provide a range of feedback. Since you asked for it here, seems like a good place. 🙂

First, thanks for all the work on this. I know how much thankless energy gets spent behind the scenes on this stuff. Below I focus on what I’d like to see changed more than what I like, but I intend all this to be positive and constructive. I also know I’m only one point of feedback.

I’ll mention in a few places that I agree with prior feedback on the new designs. Many points I make below are already made elsewhere too. Here are some of those other sources of feedback for reference:
– https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/02/25/plugin-directory-v3/
– https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/19/plugin-directory-prototypes/
– https://wptavern.com/community-created-mockups-suggest-improvements-to-the-wordpress-plugin-directory-redesign
– https://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-directory-now-in-open-beta

OVERALL

1) From a design perspective, I really like the new pages. They are super simple and clean and easy on the eyes with nice spacing and balance.

2) On the constructive/critical side, all my main concerns revolve around one broader point: it seems we’ve achieved design simplicity primarily by removing or hiding important data, and thereby notably reducing the functional usefulness of these pages. There are tens of thousands of plugins on the repo, and right now it’s just impossible to navigate and find what you are looking for. I’d consider this the single biggest usability issue for the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party repo, and one of the biggest usability issues for the WordPress ecosystem as a whole. Not only does the new design not solve that problem, it exacerbates it. While I find these pages great to look at, they’re just not super useful for comparing and selecting plugins. I’d love to see more emphasis placed back on function, esp with richer search/archive pages.

DIRECTORY / SEARCH / ARCHIVE PAGES

3) As others have noted, I’d love to see filters. Right now, when we search, we just get the default search results. I often find those results unsatisfying, but even if I did find them compelling, everyone has different preferences and priorities. We could add filters or sorting for ratings, installs, recent updates, etc, which would add huge functional value with very little clutter to the interface. A different way to put this: right now, we are trying to make decisions for people by giving them only the results we deem relevant from a single generic search algorithm. Instead, it would nice to give users the tools to find what they want.

4) I’d like to add my very strong vote to others who’ve suggested re-including in active install stats in each plugin box on plugin directory / search / archive pages. This is one of the single most important metrics I use evaluate plugins. Right now, we can’t tell if we’re looking at a plugin with 10 users or 100,000, and that’s a huge difference. This is among the most common feedback in the public discussions listed above. I think we’re trying to create space for new plugins, but I’d say having data and/or filters for ‘trending’ plugins would be a much better way to allow people to discover great new plugins than hiding all data.

5) In addition to active installs, I’d love to see other data re-added to the plugin boxes on archive/directory pages as well – last update date, compatible versions, author, etc. All this info was previously on directory / search / archive pages, but has been stripped out. Right now, we see results with no data and no indication of how they’re sorted. To compare plugins, we’d need to open each plugin page, and click around between pages while remembering what was on the other pages. In my view, the search pages should make it very easy to compare plugins at a glance, and that just requires data.

6) Someone in this thread already mentioned avoiding duplication in featured and popular plugins on the front page. I’d agree. Also is it worth increasing the number of featured or popular plugins? On a related note: the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. plugins section is cool, but do we really think that’s going to be popular enough among the broader user base to warrant such prime real estate on the front page?

INDIVIDUAL PLUGIN PAGES

7) On single plugin pages, again as others have noted, it seems like we’re still trying to do too much on one page? Given the amount of info that is (and should be) conveyed on plugin pages, a tabbed interface still seems to make more sense than a long, scrolling page with accordion-style collapsing of important data. I find the accordions on the plugins pages to be a bit awkward as far as UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing..

8) In particular, collapsing the main plugin description effectively hides some of the most important information about the plugin (ie, what it does). If we do continue to collapse it, maybe give it more space than it has now above the collapse line?

9) Have we decided to completely do a way with the Plugin stats page? I don’t see any indication of where to see stats summaries in the new betas. If so, I’d really push for adding this information back. It doesn’t need to be prominent. But this is valuable data that’s not accessible elsewhere. Removing such valuable and otherwise impossible-to-find data from public access would be sad.

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For what it’s worth, my sense is these concerns could be addressed with fairly minor tweaks that stay true to the new design concept. Then we’d get notable improvements in both beauty and function, which would be awesome.

Thanks again.
- Jake Jackson 5:14 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  I think this says it all. Address all these and we’ll have an awesome new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party section!
- joeguilmette 5:53 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  +1 this is a great, detailed run down
- J.D. Grimes 7:42 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  Note that you can see the stats for your own plugins when you are in the developer interface and go to the edit page for a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
- Mayeenul Islam 9:39 am on July 13, 2016
  
  stats
  
  +1 for the re-inclusion of Stats tab
  - Konstantin Obenland 2:43 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    @edanzer @wzislam, can you elaborate on how stats are helpful for end users to find the right pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for their use case?
    
    Context: Plugin authors will continue to have access to their plugin’s stats through the developer interface, as @jdgrimes pointed out above. There we’ll be able to even go beyond what is offered currently if there are helpful and collectable stats that developers are missing.
    - Mayeenul Islam 7:25 pm on July 13, 2016
      
      @obenland Sorry, I wan’t logged in, while I first checked the Developer Interface, so I missed the Dev.Interface, so I missed the Stats in admin panel. Yes, Stats in admin panel (dev.interface) is right for me.
    - edanzer 10:38 pm on July 13, 2016
      
      @obenland I assume we’re talking here about the stats tab with all the historical data, not just, say, download count included in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party box on search results.
      
      To be honest, I’m not advocating for the stats primary from a user perspective. Certainly, there are some uses for end users. For example, say you want to see trends for a plugin rather than just current active installs. Is a plugin growing or shrinking? How frequently are they pushing releases (which I can see because I can see the spikes on the current charts). All that information is useful to me and I’ll often check things like that.
      
      I’m also not advocating for it as a developer who just wants to see my own stats. Again, there are uses if you’re a developer looking at your own stats. The main thing here is being able to see how your plugin is doing over time – is it growing? How many downloads are getting on each release? Etc. Again, very useful. Sounds like this concern, at least, you could address by including stats in a dashboard for each plugin dev.
      
      But beyond end users and individual plugin devs, my biggest concern is that there is something of a broader responsibility here. The existing of the plugin stats offer transparency into the history and trends of one of the most important parts of the WordPress ecosystem. WordPress is, in turn, one of the most important parts of the modern web. Stats like this are, quite simply, valuable knowledge that should be made available for the public good. Advanced users, industry observers, researchers, bloggers, news outlets, etc, can all refer to stats like this to draw important conclusions about the world’s most important website platform and it major components.
      
      There are few to no alternative and reliable sources of the stats that you can see on the current stats page. If you all remove that data, it’s disappears from the web and from the domain of public knowledge. I come out of an academic background, and I know how hard it can be to find good data. The idea that we’d have all this good data available, but then not share it – that’s what I was referring to when I said it would be sad – just a public loss.
      - Joy 3:25 pm on July 14, 2016
        
        +1000
        I hate to see data disappear when it is no big deal to continue to show it. I often look at the stats of a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party I am considering. In conjunction with the change log, it gives an interesting picture of how users respond to changes. It would be even more interesting to be able to overlay a plugin’s stats with WordPress stats or release dates or even news articles. By hiding data, you assume you know what the user wants to see or learn, and you really can’t know that. Please don’t limit the users. If anything, make the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. for stats available so we can build something new with it.
      - Konstantin Obenland 5:15 pm on July 26, 2016
        
        The data itself continues to stay accessible no matter where it is visualized. I don’t think the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. endpoint is well documented, but you can get a general idea about how it works and how to pull the data from looking at the stats meta box code in the directory plugin.
    - J.D. Grimes 7:50 pm on July 20, 2016
      
      There we’ll be able to even go beyond what is offered currently if there are helpful and collectable stats that developers are missing.
      
      I think it would be useful to know how many users are using the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party with multisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network., and whether it is activated on the site per-site or is network-active.
      
      Another thing that I’m sure would be useful would be to know the locales of the sites the plugin is running on.
      
      PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. and MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. version stats for plugins would also be useful, of course.
- James Laws 1:16 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  This is an amazing assessment of the new design and the changes I would like to see to make this really A++.
  
  +1 million
joeguilmette 5:52 pm on July 12, 2016

I’ll be brief and to the point – I think the ‘Read More’ usage is awful. The were fine. It’d be nice if clicking them didn’t trigger a page reload, but they’re much better than the ‘Read More’ buttons.

I would also very much like to see the stats returned. I was hoping for *more* data, not less.
shazdeh 6:15 pm on July 12, 2016

Please add a section that showcases new plugins that have been added. I love digging through new stuff to find new jems 🙂
- Konstantin Obenland 6:16 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  Feel free to digg here: https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/browse/new/
  - George Florea Banus 3:16 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    This lists the latest updated plugins and not the latest added .
    - Konstantin Obenland 3:30 pm on July 13, 2016
      
      @dd32 Looks like it was introduced in r3499, do you remember why you went with post_modified?
      - Dion Hulse 4:04 pm on July 13, 2016
        
        Obviously a typo thinking of the `updated` view..
    - Dion Hulse 4:32 am on July 14, 2016
      
      Fixed in r3680. Thanks!
J.D. Grimes 6:17 pm on July 12, 2016

First, let me send a huge thank you to all those that are working on this. One feature that I really love is being able to modify the Tested up to version without having to update the readme.txt. Overall, I also like the modernized styling.

However, I have to agree with others who don’t like the new collapsing panes on the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party pages. When you visit a plugin page, you now cannot see any useful information that is in any of these panes. They’d be better off entirely closed or expanded further. As it is, the page content just seems confused and distracting.

Also, I know this is already being worked on, but the search is basically useless right now. Searching for some plugins by name doesn’t come up with anything. Searching for key words brings up results that are largely irrelevant in some cases.
Joy 7:13 pm on July 12, 2016

I really don’t like the new look, but I’ve already said that on the older posts.
The one thing that looks worst to me is that the main pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party directory page only shows that same old 4 plugins above the fold and scrolling does not show much more. Why show any plugins at all? Why aren’t those links (Featured, Popular, BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.)? Why aren’t you showing the breadth and depth of the directory by listing all of the categories (and perhaps the counts in each)? That way the browsing could start by categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. in addition to the option of a search.
- Joy 7:24 pm on July 12, 2016
  
  Can’t see much when I get to the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Directory:
  https://make.wordpress.org/meta/files/2016/07/Plugin-Directory-Free-WordPr-57.jpg
  
  And almost nothing on the Plugin Page:
  https://make.wordpress.org/meta/files/2016/07/Plugin-Directory-Free-WordPr-10.jpg
  
  The old design was better for both.
  - Joy 7:27 pm on July 12, 2016
    
    Where did my screenshots go?
    - Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:34 pm on July 12, 2016
      
      Somehow you put in links without any content between the a’tags so nothing showed. Fixed it for you.
      - Joy 1:59 am on July 13, 2016
        
        Thanks, but the img tags were linked (I didn’t change what the image button inserted), and the preview showed the images.
Luke Cavanagh 8:10 pm on July 12, 2016

Have you ever looked at this demo from Algolia?

https://wordpress.algolia.com/
- Mark Uraine 3:50 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  I love the simplicity of use with the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. filters. The layout leaves something to be desired, but it still contains more details which is proving to be important.
- Joy 3:29 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  I like this much better than the proposed design, especially the layout, which gives more information and is tighter.
Brian Krogsgard 12:24 am on July 13, 2016

Overall, I think this is pretty great. My biggest feedback is to do with the home page, where I think the categories could be put to good use, as a listing or dropdown of some sort, to help people looking for plugins get an idea where to start.

A search interface is nice, but I don’t know that it’s sufficient on its own, and I think a listing of the available categories, or most popular categories even, would come in quite handy.
- daverod 3:10 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  Yep, I like this idea too!
interfacelab 12:31 am on July 13, 2016

Looks great.

Search seems broken though. If I search for “amazon s3” I get a whole lot of plugins that are only marginally tangentially related to S3. I think search should stick with tags only, or emphasize results that match tags before those that just match results in the description text. It’s going to kill discovery otherwise.
typotamer 12:49 am on July 13, 2016
Information that is very important to me when looking at plugins includes:
- PLUGINPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party AUTHOR – Often, plugin names are similar. In those cases, I look to the author name to make sure I’m grabbing the right one.
- DATE LAST UPDATED – A plugin that hasn’t been updated for two+ years is of little use, but under the current system, many of those actually appear near the top of the results. Having to click through to another page to get that information is a total waste of time/clicks. This is info that needs to be front and center.
- NUMBER OF ACTIVE INSTALLS – I look to the number of active installs to help me determine whether a plugin has the reputation to go with the reviews (which, as we know, can easily be faked). Again, this is info that should be front and center, not buried behind another click.
- COMPATIBLE TO VERSION – As with DATE LAST UPDATED, if a plugin hasn’t been updated in two+ years (and is thus significantly out of date), I want to know that before I waste any more time.
The WAY those results are sorted is also important – especially when a plugin that hasn’t been updated in two+ years shows up near the top of the search results. Filtering here is key.

Please don’t take key information away for the sake of design. Function over form… ALWAYS.

Thanks for listening.
dcooney 2:09 am on July 13, 2016
Thanks for the all work that’s gone into this redesign, I’m liking the landing page and search results. Clean and effective.

I’m am concerned with the new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party detail pages for a few reasons:

Read More Links
- Unable to share direct links to faqs, screenshots, changelog etc.
- There is nothing wrong with the current tabbed interface, it’s intuitive and easy to navigate between the different plugin sections.
- Content is not easy readable, the sections seem to run into one another.
Hero Images
- New sizes for the plugin hero banner is going to create massive amounts of work for developers who need to update their plugin assets.
- Full width banner pushes important content much too far down the screen. It would be nice to get the high-level description without having to scroll.
- Hero banners and 128px icon are very similar for most plugins so it creates repetition way to early on the page. The following screenshot illustrates what I see on a 13′ macbook. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtjag15fmf62hp8/Screenshot%202016-07-12%2022.11.11.png?dl=0
Thanks for listening!
- Maeve Lander 4:48 am on July 13, 2016
  
  100% agree with all these points from @dcooney
- Mark Uraine 3:57 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  The Hero images still retain the same proportions of the smaller size, and this size adjustment doesn’t cause much visual quality loss, so most won’t need to be re-worked.
  
  It does push content down further, and there is duplication often between the hero image and icon. Maybe we can explore dropping the hero image completely?
  - Konstantin Obenland 4:01 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    Any duplication is due to the banner and icon not being displayed simultaneously in the current directory.
    
    This could (and probably should) also be seen as an opportunity for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developers to further individualize their plugin’s appearance. They get one more tool to make it stand out.
  - Joy 3:37 pm on July 14, 2016
    
    I’ve never been a fan of big banners at the top of a page. I would like to see the most important info first, without scrolling. To me, that is the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party name and version, then description and modified date. Basically, much as it is displayed in the current directory. If all you changed from the current was removing the banner, I’d be happy! Or show the banner at the bottom of the page. But the new design shows almost all banner.
Greenweb 4:17 am on July 13, 2016

I think that tabs across the top are more user-friendly, I don’t think people will be scrolling down to the FAQs etc.
Justin Busa 8:41 am on July 13, 2016

I think the new directory looks much cleaner. However, I feel this layout isn’t as easy to navigate as the tabbed layout. The info feels jumbled with all of the stacked sections and read more links.

It’s definitely going in the right direction though. The new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party author admin is awesome!
- Justin Busa 8:54 am on July 13, 2016
  
  Content appears to be loaded all at once (correct me if I’m wrong), so why not ditch the read more links and go for a more readily available nav like the quick mockup below?
Mayeenul Islam 9:35 am on July 13, 2016

I’m not sure it’s the right place to mention this, but it’s a part of the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party repo redesign IMHO, so here is my view:

The Plugin reviews are specific to a Plugin’s version, not to the WordPress version. But that’s not reflected to the reviews:

This review is for the plugin version 0.1.1, not for the WordPress version 4.5.2.

I think the WordPress version dropdown can be replaced with a Plugin version, or it can be added into the Review form.

Thank you.
- Mayeenul Islam 11:00 am on July 13, 2016
  
  Where’s my image attachment? I’ve added one, anyway – the message is clear I think.
Frank Bueltge 12:46 pm on July 13, 2016

Hi Konstantin.
thanks for the update and the work on this topic.
A question about the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. author of a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. If I switch this author of a plugin, then it is currently not possible in the CPT view. You list the author on top of the plugin post type and also the contributor in the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box. It is on the road map to change the author, especially important if I change the owner of the plugin. Have also a result in my support feed about all plugins.
Thanks.
- Konstantin Obenland 2:34 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  There is a post metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box in the edit screen of a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that allows you to change the author of the plugin. You might have to enable it in screen options.
  
  Can you elaborate on your support feed statement? What would the expected behavior be and how does it differ from that now?
  
  Thanks!
Rami Yushuvaev 2:09 pm on July 13, 2016

We can make it easier to update icons / banners from https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-admin/ instead of SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. commits to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party “assets” folder.

WordPress already has an excellent “Features Image” mechanism that can be used. Or a new metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box where you can upload and set those images.
- J.D. Grimes 2:49 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  This sounds like a great idea.
  - Rami Yushuvaev 5:34 pm on July 13, 2016
    If this suggestion will be implemented, it’s recommended to do an auto-import from the current “assets” folder of each pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to the new plugin-directory “uploads” folder and delete the old assets folders.
    
    Also, for quick access to those files, I think it would be great if those files will be saved under “uploads/plugs-slug/” folder and using predefined file names, no matter what is the original file name.
    
    I was thinking something like this as final result:
    
    https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-content/uploads/plugin-slug/icon.svg
    
    https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-content/uploads/plugin-slug/icon-128×128.png
    
    https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-content/uploads/plugin-slug/icon-256×256.png
    
    https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-content/uploads/plugin-slug/banner-772×250.png
    
    https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-content/uploads/plugin-slug/banner-1544×500.png
- Konstantin Obenland 5:25 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  The biggest benefit of keeping them in SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. is version control—being able to see changes and having access to older versions of those files for posterity.
David Laietta 2:21 pm on July 13, 2016

The changes that you’ve made already are welcome, and I think the directory and pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party management are both going in a great direction.

While I probably missed it somewhere along the way, I’m curious if anything has been written about how end-user friendly the search is, such as response to support and date since last update.
- Konstantin Obenland 2:24 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  I’m curious […] how end-user friendly the search is
  
  I’m not sure I understand your question. Are you looking for more information on how support responsiveness and last updated date are factored into search results?
  - Luke Cavanagh 4:11 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    I think it relates to having accurate relevant fast results, with some faceted search aspect to it.
- J.D. Grimes 4:02 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  @davidjlaietta, you might take a look at this meta trac ticket.
kstarker 3:38 pm on July 13, 2016

I left some feedback on the Tavern comments here: https://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-directory-now-in-open-beta#comment-185077 — in short, I agree with a lot of the sentiment here that the “Read More” links are not an improvement over the tabbed layout, and that search improvements would be welcome. The design refresh is great, just really not a fan of the “everything on one page” approach.
samjco 5:21 pm on July 13, 2016

OK I would like to add my two cents…..I love this part!
It would be nice if PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Repo had:

1. Base plugin categories
Fimiliar categories to sort plugin by: (Media, Utilites, General, etc)

2. Advance sorting
Having advanced sorting (ratings, downloads, recent, etc) would be awesome! Check out Angolia.com it’s free and fast indexing.

3. Differentiate Plugins
There should be a visible difference between “Main Plugins” and “Addons Plugin with it’s dependencies”. (e.g: ACF = main plugin, ACF PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. VARS = Addon plugin that’s dependent on ACF). Perhaps color code it.

4. More info about the Plugin.
Kinda like, what the plugin depends on, how many tables are added by plugin, known conflicts, What js/css are added with plugin.

5. Grouped feature for WordPress
This is more on the “under the hood of WordPress” side of things. But this has revelance to this topic. In the dashboard > plugins of WordPress, I think the “Main Plugin” should show (e.g: ACF, Gravity Forms).. however if any addons are installed (ACF PHP VARS, MailChimp for Gravity Forms), they should appear in a dropdown under the main plugin.

These are my top 5 suggestions…. sorry in advance for any typos! 😛
- samjco 5:24 pm on July 13, 2016
  
  Ooops typo on number 2. it’s Algolia.com, not Angolia!!!
  - slickremix 8:41 pm on July 13, 2016
    
    Wow number 3 is awesome! Great Idea!
- Joy 4:26 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  For #1, see https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/20/taxonomies-in-the-plugin-directory/#comment-8274
  where this is mentioned.
  
  For #3, see https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/20/taxonomies-in-the-plugin-directory/#comment-8275
  
  For #4, see https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/20/taxonomies-in-the-plugin-directory/#comment-8312
slickremix 8:38 pm on July 13, 2016

I’d like to bring this to light again.

Make a way to “suggest” users ask for support before they leave a 3 star or below on the .org Repository like Etsy.com does. This will help developers who actually care about keeping users happy and making sure our users get best attention.

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1661
Joe Hana 9:04 pm on July 13, 2016

Like the clean fresh approach on the design. Here are a few things to consider:

1. The tabbed navigation was better before. Having all different “sections” on a single glipse helps more than scrolling through the text, having a hard time to find a specific section
2. Contributors and Developers at the last part? C’mon. I guess they had a better place on the side as well
3. A date on the reviews would be really helpful. At the moment it is simply unclear if a rating belongs to the most current version of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or to the plugin it general. More details here would give a better feeling for everyone who wants to use a specific plugin
4. I would make the Download Button a little larger so that there is not much difference between the heights of the titel and developer together vs. the button on its own.

What do you think?
ccprog 12:08 am on July 14, 2016
Sometime in the near future, there needs to be a review of the relationship between the readme.txt, the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party presentation and the edit screen:
- Will the readme.txt file be dropped at some point in favor of editing metaboxes / media upload in the plugin edit screen? I seem to remember that it was argued that the file should remain a part of the download package.
- If it is to be preserved, how does data gets exchanged between the file and the edit screen? Some information currently maintained in the file has already found its way to the edit screen (Tested With, Categories – well, in a way). Is the file updated if information is edited in the interface and vice versa?
- What about the sections dropped from the readme.txt for the new presentation (Tags, Installation, Other Notes)? Will they remain in the file, but become invisible, or are they deleted?
- Currently the readme.txt has one section that cannot be understood if read from the downloaded package: Screenshots – they are not part of the download. To me it seems to be there only because there was no other place to save the image captions. Shouldn’t that be adjusted now?
If you ask me what I would like to see in the long term, it would be moving away from a developer-maintained readme.txt and in the direction of a metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. interface. The readme.txt would then be generated automatically from these informations and added to the download packages without developer intervention.
- Travis Northcutt 12:14 am on July 14, 2016
  
  What are the criteria for a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party being included in the “featured” section?
- Chop-Chop.org 1:36 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  I agree with @ccprog. Having to edit readme.txt and push the file to the repository just to change a single line in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party’s description is really inconvenient. I hope to see the option to edit the descriptions in the admin panel in the near future.
- Konstantin Obenland 5:36 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  Will the readme.txt file be dropped at some point in favor of editing metaboxes / media upload in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party edit screen?
  
  No, given the history we have in SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. I can’t see a future where the readme file will be abandoned entirely. Having it ship with the zip also plays into it, yes.
  
  Is the file updated if information is edited in the interface and vice versa?
  
  At this point it looks like that will be the path forward. We don’t want to lose the change history in SVN but also want to make it easier for plugin authors to change it. Although making a file change and committing is probably not too much of a burden.
  
  What about the sections dropped from the readme.txt for the new presentation
  
  Nothing will happen to them, they’ll remain a part of the readme until the plugin author choses to change them.
  
  […] there was no other place to save the image captions [than in the readme]. Shouldn’t that be adjusted now?
  
  Interesting idea. I’m sure we can think of a better way to manage them, but they will likely also get updated in the readme for posterity, as mentioned above.
Jon Brown 2:26 am on July 14, 2016

Not to be a crank, but I’m having trouble seeing what changed from V2.

Again +1 on bring back tabs and getting rid of the “read more” links. The new layout is extremely hard to use and navigate compared to the old one. It’s prettier, but it’s not better.

See visual comments:
https://cloudup.com/ckbwzfSp6Sk

I agree on getting rid of the useless sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. of search and tags, but making the banner bigger doesn’t help anyone make a decision on what pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to use. Losing the short description hurts that too.

Crude Inspector mockup of a better layout (IMHO):
https://cloudup.com/c7x22BSO-fK

I think a better layout would be to bring the sidebar up full height on desktop and wider than the old sidebar while also bringing back tabs. This would make the banner smaller, bring content up and highly all the important data. Maybe use the “read more” links could be used on mobile only, although I personally find them even harder to use on mobile where everything now jumps around all over the place unexpectedly when clicked. I guess really I just don’t care about mobile since I can’t imagine ever looking through the plugin repo on mobile.
- Ankit Pokhrel 2:27 am on July 15, 2016
  
  Missing a sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. doesn’t hurt much but we should have main details like author, average rating, last updated, compatibility on first fold of the page along with the short description.
Andy 3:38 am on July 14, 2016

I really like the new look and the effort that has gone into it. Maybe it’s because I don’t like change, but I much prefer tab navigation.

When I go to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party directory, it’s because I’m looking for an answer to a problem. It’s bad enough that I have to search through the directory, but once I find something that may work, I want to read the description. I could care less about everything else at that moment. I want to know what the plugin can do for me. If the description satisfies my needs then I move on to screenshots, reviews etc… No need to crowd everything onto the first page…. Just my humble opinion, but overall it looks great, very fresh, clean.
Just go the tab route….. life will be great =)
Wolly aka Paolo Valenti 8:31 am on July 14, 2016

Developer interface

As I pointed out in polyglots chat, I’d like to allow devs to propose PTEs for their plugins and themes directly from the developer interface.

It should post on make.wp.org/polyglots the requests and GTEs should have in rosetta a list of all requests.

This is my point of view as a dev and as a GTEGeneral Translation Editor General Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor. 🙂
- Pascal Casier 10:11 am on July 14, 2016
  
  This is only 1 of the many requests concerning translation. It really feels like translation is somewhere forgotten or very difficult to find anyway. Please see my remarks on https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/20/plugin-directory-prototypes-single-view/#comment-8355 and the 8363 one just below that.
  Always available to give you more input gathered from the other polyglots !
  Pascal.
  - Konstantin Obenland 5:44 pm on July 26, 2016
    
    It really feels like translation is somewhere forgotten or very difficult to find anyway
    
    I can assure you, it is not. I think allowing pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party authors to ask to become PTEs from the developer interface makes sense and I can see it being added eventually. It’s just a little out of scope for this iteration. We’ve been focust on porting the existing directory over and not necessarily on the addition of new features.
Ankit Pokhrel 9:33 am on July 14, 2016

Why is this listing different from this one? Design issue?
- Konstantin Obenland 3:45 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  I’m impressed with your eye for detail. One is a definition list, the other a table. It’ll likely not stay that way since wp-admin is more experimental at this point.
Ankit Pokhrel 9:50 am on July 14, 2016

Search seems to be broken. It returns unexpected results.
- Stagger Lee 10:06 am on July 14, 2016
  
  Seems so. First 3 pages have nothing to do with search keyword.
- Konstantin Obenland 3:47 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  @ankitpokhrel @Stagger Lee
  Could be more specific? We’re in need of more data points to optimize search. Which keywords did you use and how did the result differ from what you expected?
  - Ankit Pokhrel 3:54 pm on July 14, 2016
    
    @obenland Try searching for `featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.`. It will show jetpack, events calendar, nextgen gallery etc which I think has no relation with featured image. Most of the results shown are not relevant to the search query.
    - Konstantin Obenland 4:03 pm on July 14, 2016
      
      Three out of the top 5 results have the term in their title and I assume the event plugins let you use featured images for their events?
      - Ankit Pokhrel 4:36 pm on July 14, 2016
        
        Compare results from current system. If you compare the results, results from old system is far better.
        
        For featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. query it looks like every result has “featured image” word in it. But if you look at download monitor pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party from the result, it mentions featured image 2 times in the change log and It is showing in the front page while other relevant plugins are not in the list. If this is the case then I can use some most searched plugin name in my plugin description to make it show up when user search for other plugins, right?
  - Stagger Lee 11:04 am on July 15, 2016
    
    I test searched for “bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org.”. First 3 Pages are some generic plugins you can use for everything, then comes first mention of some bbPress related pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, middle of third Page.
    
    I searched for same in my WP backend and first results are bbPress related plugins, as it should be.
  - Stagger Lee 11:10 am on July 15, 2016
    
    Maybe you should be a bit more strict with allowing developers what Tags they use, and make search prioritize those Tags, not pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party description, etc.
    
    For instance in my example Adminimize plugin comes before some very bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. related plugins. Why ? Everyone knows this plugin can be used for everything from making breakfast to bbPress, no need to push it high in result list.
    
    What have Relevanssi and User role editor to do with bbPress. We all know they can be used for everythig and every plugin.
    With logic like this You can list all 45.000 plugins when somenone search for “bbpress”.
Tracy Levesque 12:23 pm on July 14, 2016

First off, thank you so much for all the work that has gone into this redesign. I know how much of an insurmountable task this was and I really appreciate it.

I don’t know if I am just missing it, but I don’t see the language packs listed. I think this is important info to have. It could go under support like it is now.

I like move of the stats to the backend, I imagine there will be room for more robust stats in the future with it located there.

Overall I like the new design, but I prefer tabs vs read more.
samjco 1:23 pm on July 14, 2016

Tabs vs ReadMore.

With the readmores, I don’t think a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party’s single page will get indexed correctly with search engines the way you would want….

If you keep the tabs, with links (not #) and maybe with hashbangs! You will allow sitelinks in google. Sitelinks are good because on any give plugin search you will see a summary and sublinks of that plugin (summary, screenshots, etc).

I also think when using tabs, which in my opinion are the best way to go….
Screenshots should away be the second tab, if not the first. Users almost always goes to a plugin’s screenshots first before reading the summary.

Screenshots should be lightbox. Please.
- Joy 4:18 pm on July 14, 2016
  
  Screenshots are the last thing I look at, and I mostly don’t because it’s slow to load and doesn’t really tell you that much. A link to a demo is much better, or just finding all the detail I need in the description is even better.
  - samjco 7:40 pm on July 14, 2016
    
    PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party demos are probably something that won’t happen anytime soon, probably due to the many factors it would take to program such a universal thing.
    
    Screenshots should not load slow even with a typical ISP of 5mbits down.
    
    But a moderate user looks at the screenshot first to get an idea where it will function, it’s location within WP, and if the design is useful, etc.
    
    The screenshot should at least be the 2nd tab, and maybe include a feature image on the summary tab.
gelform 1:34 pm on July 14, 2016

The new design feels great – open, friendly, clear. A few suggestions.

Main page: It strikes me that there is no general browse button. You can search, or browse Featured, Popular and BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process., but no way to just get to all the plugins.

I’d also like to see categories. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re searching for.

Individual page: While I appreciate the airiness of the new design, on my 11″ macbook air I have to scroll before I get to any actual content. http://prntscr.com/bsth1b It’s the same on mobile, which more and more of the world uses to view the web.

The version is the first data point. Is that really what most people care the most about? I would think ratings, installs, and support would be more important.

I’m getting lost in the “read mores” of each section, and I’m not sure it makes sense to have the “read more” outside the section. Moving them above the section line makes each section feel more cohesive, and separate, I think. http://prntscr.com/bstnr4

Admin view: Love it! Though of course would like more stats – geolocation, how they found the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (search terms), downloaded or installed, etc.

Thanks for your hard work!

Corey
- Konstantin Obenland 5:48 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  no way to just get to all the plugins
  
  Both browse/popular and browse/new will list all plugins, they are just ordered differently.
samjco 1:59 pm on July 14, 2016

I agree Corey.
Plugins should have main base categories: All, Security, Optimization, Media, for Pages, for Posts, Dashboard, Frontend, etc…..

This should not be confused with tags.

In each categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. section… can we have a top section and the latest section
The top section can be in a section that can scroll left or right, sort of like the AppStore does.

Can there be a feed related to each category?

Just some more thoughts.
- Konstantin Obenland 5:50 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  Can there be a feed related to each categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging.?
  
  WordPress offers feeds for all taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. archives by default. Example: browse/popular
Graham Armfield 4:10 pm on July 14, 2016
Firstly the design looks attractive, so that’s good. However, some work needs to be done on the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) of the pages. I’ve done a very swift a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) check and I have the following comments. But none of these are major issues:

Front Page
- Heading structure – there are multiple h1s. Needs a better hierarchy
- Search button has no text in it so screen readers have nothing to voice. Suggest use screen reader text.
- ‘See all’ links – see all what? Need screen reader text for context there.
- Ratings count figure could use some screen reader text to explain what the number represents
- Some screen readers may not read out star rating in title attribute – could use screen reader text instead.
PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Page
- Heading structure – there are multiple h1s. Needs a better hierarchy
- Search button has no text in it so screen readers have nothing to voice. Suggest use screen reader text.
- Some screen readers may not read out star rating in title attribute – could use screen reader text instead.
- Could use a heading above the Version, Last Updated, etc in the same way as there is for Ratings and Support. Screen reader users use headings to navigate around page to save time.
I can see that some work has been done to help with accessibility here so that’s good.
- Konstantin Obenland 5:55 pm on July 26, 2016
  
  Thanks Graham! I ported it over into a metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket to work on it: #1862.
Nico 7:33 pm on July 14, 2016

A lot of people do not seem to like the “read more” single page thing and I agree. I have a Idea:

Keep the overview page like it is now including the “read more”s but also have tabs like before that open with Ajaxed or just preloaded content when you click on a “read more” or a tab. That would the best of both in one IMO.

And probably tune the overview page to have more words from the description.
Torsten Landsiedel 1:29 pm on July 15, 2016

If there is not much content (for example changelog for https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/normalizer/) you can use “read more” but nothing happens (just the arrow is flipping). I think this is a little bit confusing UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing./UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it..

If there is much content, like in changelog for Akismet you have to scroll down until you find the corresponding “read more” link to collapse the text. I think this is an annoying behavior for users.

And I am really missing a sortable filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output./search. I want to filter for things like – just plugins depending on Contact Form 7 or all Plugins compatible with 4.5 or sorted by installs/rating/tested up to. Etc.
samjco 11:03 pm on July 16, 2016

Another idea would be to show which WordPress Types are supported. (e.g: Supports WordPress, BubbyPress, WPMulti-User)
Ahmad Awais 8:04 am on July 18, 2016
First of all, props to the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team working hard to make the plugins’ directory better.

I like it, but there are several concerns. The description area is imperative, and it is nowhere to be found as in, way too small real estate for such a critical section. Video helps with the conversion rate, what if the user doesn’t click the `read more` to see there indeed is a video in the description.

Secondly, I have never in my life seen a product publicize negative reviews at the front page. Nor does any platform requires it. (Case in point, Envato Codecanyon)

I am afraid reviews are not adequately managed and can affect the conversion as well as the product itself.

Here’s an example A bad review for a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that I built, stating it doesn’t support a non-GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. premium plugin called Visual Composer. I have made no claims to support that plugin.

But in the new plugin repo, that review is at the top of the main landing page of my plugin http://cloud.ahmda.ws/xIcot4Z

So, I have a big problem with this layout. Here’s what I suggest:
- Either don’t include the reviews at the main landing page of a plugin
- Or include the 5-star reviews only (on the main landing page of a plugin)
Ahmad Awais 7:50 am on July 24, 2016

I shared my thoughts at WPLift http://wplift.com/new-wp-plugin-repository-community-feedback
kevinwhoffman 6:46 pm on July 27, 2016

Can we please hear some rationale regarding the move away from tabs and towards Read More links? There are over 20 comments above criticizing the use of Read More links and/or advocating for tabs. This decision has big implications and will determine how to proceed with the rest of the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. (e.g. determining how screenshots should be displayed). Thanks.
- Matt Cromwell 11:23 pm on July 27, 2016
  
  I agree that there has been very little public discussion from MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Team leaders as to the rationale behind the readmore in general. I think the whole design in general is really nice except for the single page view where it’s cluttered and unwieldy and much less beneficial to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and users than the current version.
  
  If the readmore is the way it’s going no matter what, then it would be nice to hear that said, so suggestions for improving that can happen. But as-is, it feels like many invested users are voicing primarily the hope that tabs will come back or at minimum the full description will be shown without a readmore.
- Andrew Nevins 8:34 am on July 28, 2016
  
  Sorry if this has been discussed in the above wall of text.
  
  The Reviews section should be a place to learn about people’s experiences with the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party *and* the author’s response. There needs to be functionality that lets people read more into the review.
Arshid 6:13 pm on July 28, 2016

I think, new repository “plugins-wp” has some issues. Like new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party hase less priority. And if I search “WooCommerce ” then not showing proper result.
Mickey Kay 4:52 am on October 9, 2016

Is the admin intentionally locked down right now? I’m simply redirected to my legacy user profile when I try to access anything in /wp-admin. I’d like to provide some feedback on the plugins list table, but want to make sure I’m working off the latest copy. Thanks y’all!
ristrettoapps 11:46 pm on December 12, 2016

Quite concerned about this directory and my pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. With the old directory, I can search for my plugin just fine either by name directly or by keywords. With the new betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process., I can search for the exact name of my plugin and it never shows up – ever!! It’s a unique name:
‘handsome testimonials’

Additionally, when I search just the term “testimonials,” a term which my plugin has in its title, my plugin never shows up on all pages while other highly non-related plugins to testimonials come up on page 2.

If this gets released, my downloads will fall off a cliff.

Any ideas of how close this new directory is to being made default??
- Alex Shiels 12:21 pm on December 14, 2016
  
  Thanks for the report. It looks like there’s a data issue – some of the metadata for your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party is incorrect, and that’s pushing it way down in the results. I’m looking at getting that fixed, and also doing some kind of audit to check for other similar issues.
  - ristrettoapps 3:36 pm on December 14, 2016
    
    Hey thanks for the reply Alex! I didn’t realize there was metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. data issues in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, is there anything I can do to fix it on my end (meaning is it an issue with my readme.txt)?
    
    Thanks much!
Ciprian 5:02 pm on November 18, 2017

Is this still a thing? https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/wp-admin

Welcome to the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Team!

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