As of last week, plugin 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 uploads are restricted to one at a time.
That means if you have a plugin in the queue, be it submitted for review, in review, or pending your reply, you may not submit a second plugin. You have to finish your first one (or ask us to reject it) before you can move on.
This is not for the same reason that Themes does it. To whit, you’re not restricted to keep the queue low (ours is usually only a 3 to 7 day backlog anyway). You’re all being restricted because people aren’t finishing reviews, and it’s become a drain on resources.
We have over 700 reviews waiting on the developer to get back to us.
Now some of those are cases where people lost the email, or missed it somehow. Other people get the email and don’t know what to do or decide it’s too much work to fix all the things. And worse, some people decided that they’d get the review and never use the directory. In order to prevent this sort of abuse, and the disrespect to everyone else who actually finishes a review and uses the hosting we provide, everyone’s being restricted.
This should not be onerous. We have a tiny backlog. To the point that some people get rather rude when they don’t get a reply in 36 hours. And yes, that’s exactly as annoying as you think it is.
One review at a time. One plugin at a time. Please give us at least 5 business days to reply to emails.
By the way. If you’ve submitted a plugin within the last 7 days and haven’t gotten a reply, check your spam because I promise, we ended Friday with an empty queue.
