Submitted a Plugin? Please Check Your Emails!

Currently ~30% of all new plugins are approved within 7 days of submission.

Why so low? People don’t reply to their emails. We have over 100 plugins waiting on replies from developers. At this precise moment (10:30 am US Pacific Time, Sunday April 16) there are ZERO plugins pending review. That means everyone who submitted a 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 between April 1 and today has been emailed.

If you didn’t get the email, please go check your spam. Free email clients like Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google tend to file us as ‘automated’ emails, which is not true, but whatever. Put plugins@wordpress.org in your whitelist (actually put @wordpress.org in a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. to have it never treated as spam and always important) because if you’re not getting emails from WP and you’ve submitted a plugin or a theme, you’re going to have a bad time.

Again. Everyone’s been emailed. I promise. Check your emails. Drop us a line if you can’t find it. Remember to whitelist us.

#reminder

AITpro 5:43 pm on April 16, 2017

Yeah the whole “automated” email spam thing had reached epidemic levels for us. About 40% of all “automated” emails sent from us get rejected/blocked as spam by host mail server anti-spam software. We had to create a non-email based system in addition to our existing automated email system due to the high number of folks contacting us about not receiving automated emails from us. I hate saying anything negative, but it is aggravating that anti-spam measures used on host mail servers are more of a problem these days than a solution. Ugh.
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 6:32 pm on April 16, 2017
  
  For a while we had a bigger problem with Gmail’s ‘filtering’ because it would file us in their weird folders incorrectly. We were ‘Promotional.’ 😒
Arnan de Gans 11:45 pm on April 16, 2017

Real developers shouldn’t use archaic services like hotmail, live and yahoo anyway… Unless they’re script kiddies 😉
I’ve blocked many of those domains on my sites too so they can’t make accounts with them.
hiddenpearls 11:32 am on April 17, 2017

Congratulations @Mika on flushing pending review plugins.
Anonymous User 8:54 am on April 21, 2017

Hey @Mika, I’m no email expert, but it looks like the SPF records on wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ could probably be tightened up. They are currently showing as “neutral” rather than “pass” https://i.imgur.com/z9wdyp9.png. This will probably be why a lot of emails aren’t being received by people. I personally haven’t had any issues through gmail though.
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 10:23 pm on April 21, 2017
  
  PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @otto42 – can we make email magic? 😋
  - Samuel Wood (Otto) 11:04 pm on April 21, 2017
    
    I’ve complained to systems about that many times over the years, but they’re not having any. So, I suspect the answer there is no.
    
    Thing is, in a decentralized group of people, everybody has their own preferred email solution. So, there is no right answer for rules like that. It is what it is.