Welcome to the official blog for the Plugin Review Team.
The review team acts as gate-keepers and fresh eyes on newly submitted plugins, as well as reviewing any reported security or guideline violations.
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The review team acts as gate-keepers and fresh eyes on newly submitted plugins, as well as reviewing any reported security or guideline violations.
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The email went out last night to everyone with commit access to a plugin.
After testing your plugins and ensuring compatibility, it only takes a few moments to change the readme āTested up to:ā value to 4.6. This information provides peace of mind to users and helps encourage them to update to the latest version.
For each plugin that is compatible, you donāt need to release a new version ā just change the stable versionās readme value.
Looking to get more familiar with 4.6? Read this roundup post on the core development blog to check out the changes made to register_meta(), native fonts, persistent comment cache, Customizer APIs, WP_HTTP API, and much, much more: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/07/26/wordpress-4-6-field-guide/
Thank you for all you do for the WordPress community, and we hope you enjoy 4.6 as much as we do.
Also, as weāve been warning for the last two cycles, some plugins have been closed. Itās a requirement that we be able to contact you. Weāve also been pushing back on auto-replies, since they make it impossible for us to tell if thereās a human reading. Frankly, based on the content of the auto-replies, this is the cycle we see:
We email you and receive an auto reply of āA support ticket has been createdā¦ā We email a warning āHey, please remove us from this auto replyā¦ā and we get another auto reply. We donāt reply to that one, but 3 months later when we send another email, the cycle starts anew. This tells us that you are not actually reading your support emails. Which means we have no way to contact you (and your users probably hate you, just FYI). So this time, plugins have been closed.
Your plugin has been closed (or you were removed from a plugin) based on the following criteria:
If the only valid emails for the plugin meet those criteria, the plugin was closed. If it was only one committer, they were removed and everyone else was emailed and notified.
In all cases we absolutely emailed each and every one of you. I did it myself. I directly contacted over 80 plugins about this situation and expressly told them if their plugins were closed or if people were removed, and why.
If you find your plugin was closed and you didnāt get an email, check spam, because they were all sent. Even to people who auto-replied. Which was really annoying.