Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:00 pm on April 6, 2017  

Plugin Submissions Open

It took a little longer than expected or desired, due to a couple serious issues. Not everything is perfect yet, but submissions are open.

Some things are different. Most are the same.

Zips are required (not links)

Instead of a link, you will now upload your zip directly. In doing so, 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 slug will be assigned for you. If your zip isn’t valid, if your plugin headers aren’t valid, you’ll get an error message. Read it carefully. If you get a message that says your plugin URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org and Author URL can’t be the same, that’s exactly what it means.

* Plugin URI: https://example.com/plugin
* Author URI: https://example.com/

Those have to be different.

Slugs are determined from plugin headers

That’s right, the name you get is based on your Plugin Headers. That means this:

* Plugin Name: My Cool Plugin

That will give you a plugin slug of my-cool-plugin and that will get you an email from us telling you not to use “Plugin” in your URL, and is “my-cool” okay? Please do read the emails and reply properly. If it’s a simple typo, we’ll just fix it for you. If we’re not sure what’s best, we’ll email.

No more 7-day rejections

Since the new and pending queues are now split, we won’t be rejecting plugins after seven days. If you don’t reply to the email, your plugin just sits there and waits for you. But the good news here is that you can’t resubmit. You’ll get a warning message that the plugin already exists.

Release and iterate

All of this is going to be iterated on and improved. We have goals to make the add page list everything you have pending, for example, and we’ll be implementing a limit of how many plugins you can upload at once to prevent things like one person submitting ten at once. Since our queue is rarely more than a week, that’s no hardship.

I’m primarily concentrating on making the back-end of the directory work better and documenting the process so we can get down to the business of expanding the team. Divide and conquer as they say.

What about new reviewers?

Soon! This year! Hopefully by summer. My modest goals are as follows:

  1. Get all the current reviewers up to speed
  2. Invite a couple select people to join as guinea pigs
  3. Train them up good and work out the kinks in that
  4. Post an open call for new members
  5. Accept some and train them
  6. Go back to step 4

By limiting how many new members we take at a time, we can release and iterate our training methods and documentation faster.

As always, remember to whitelist the plugins@wordpress.org email address and follow this blog for updates.

Thank you for your patience!