WordCamp US/2016 Recap

First of all I suck for not getting everyone’s names. I’m lucky I remember mine…

This marks my first year as the rep 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 Directory Team and we’ve made some phenomenal headway. We’ve re-written the detailed plugin guidelines to be more understandable and clear for everyone. We’ve actually written a handbook! We never had one before. And Team Apollo has been brilliant getting the new directory from a pipe dream to a 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. test reality. Thank you everyone for getting us here.

At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2016 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., we had over 20 people going over the brand new Handbook, which lead to the creation of the Glossary and a lot of edits! So a huge thank you to everyone who was here. I really appreciate it. We also had a few people reviewing plugins as practice for the first time. I look forward to their results. Good luck, folks!

Right now the new directory is in public beta. That means if you go check it out wordpress.org/plugins-wp/ you’ll see the brave new world for plugins, and we hope you can help us test things out. If you find bugs in search, please report them on Meta Trac #1692-meta.

The Plugin Developer Documentation has been updated to address the changes (mostly to your Plugin Assets) and the Handbook was written with this new interface in mind.

Which leads us to the eternal question… when will the directory open up to new reviewers?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the opening of the plugin team to new members will happen after the new directory is complete. This is just a technical necessity. The current system works but it has serious limitations that are just prohibitive to adding more people. That made writing a handbook for a process that doesn’t exist rather interesting. My goal is, once the directory is live, to iron out the how-to-review and then get some experienced developers in to review but not approve, to see if we can come up with a process closer to the Theme Review Team, but not fall to backlog.

This will take a lot of experimentation and patience.

Hang in there.

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