Forums Status Update (Sept 7)

Happy 4.6.1 day.

• Reviews are back.
• 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 and contributors are listed as authors and contributors
• RSS feeds for individual plugin forums are working
• Topic subscriptions should be working. Existing subs are still being imported.

The direct urls to your reviews will be https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/reviews/#new-post — I don’t know if that’s forever.

The amount of data being imported is causing everything to take longer than expected, in order to do this without crashing the servers. Which would be bad. That’s also why some posts are showing out of order. This is the biggest bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org install ever, I suspect…

ETA on everything? We don’t know. It’s all taking longer than we hoped.

Akismet has also been acting a prat and spamming people so if that happens, swing by the #forums slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ and ask if they can have a look for you 🙂 Please ask nicely and offer coffee.