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Please take some time to read and comment on the proposal to move Widgets to the Blocks UX!
This post is a proposal of changes to be made to the Plugin Guidelines.
The majority of changes are intended to address significant issues faced by ESL (English as a Second Language) developers. This proposal also contains a significant rewrite to the lamented 11th Guideline (hijacking the admin dashboard).
This proposal will remain open until after WordCamp EU 2019, at which point it will be closed and either re-proposed (if there are significant changes), implemented, or scrapped.
The rest of this post will go over an overview of intent, the proposed changes (with summary), and information as to how to contribute. All community members are welcome to participate.
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WordPress 5.2 is due out at the end of April, and wit that release the minimum recommended version of PHP will be PHP 5.6.
For most plugins this is a non-issue. While we recommend you update your “Requires PHP:” version in your readme.txt, this won’t change the functionality of your code. That field is a minimum version, so if your code works with 7.0 and up, you can set it to `Requires PHP: 7.0` and that will cover 7.1 and 7.2
Also keep in mind, this doesn’t change our policy on PHP versioning, which is to say we still do not have an official version requirement for PHP in your plugins. If you want to support 5.6 forever, feel free. If you want to require 7.1 and up, again, go for it.
You can use a compare to do the basic check:
version_compare( PHP_VERSION, '5.6', '<' )
And remember the goal for your plugin is “Don’t break things for users.” Stop them from getting fatal errors, and don’t run your plugin if you know it can’t work.
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There’s a company who regularly emails people telling them that for $50 or $100 they’ll review your plugin or theme and you’ll get 5 star ratings on WordPress.org. They’ll tell you that doing this will get you SEO and traffic and they’ll link to their domain as proof of their success.
They’re lying.
Don’t fall for this. Never pay anyone for a review, it’s all a scam and the worst case scenario is that they actually do write a review. Why is that worst? Because if we find out you paid for reviews, we remove your plugins from hosting.
If you got a mail from a certain company offering a Valentine’s sale, know that we already know about them. They’ve been banned from here for years but we’ll be monitoring reviews just in case they slip through.
