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.

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