Title: Forums Status Update (Sept 7)
Author: Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
Published: September 8, 2016

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2:25 am _on_ September 8, 2016     
Tags: [forums ( 6 )](https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/tag/forums/)

# 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/](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](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](https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/tag/forums/) slackSlack Slack
is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
and ask if they can have a look for you 🙂 Please ask nicely and offer coffee.

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