Title: One At A Time
Author: Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
Published: October 24, 2017
Last modified: October 20, 2017

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu/) [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu/)
10:33 am _on_ October 24, 2017      

# One At A Time

As of last week, 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/](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.

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 1.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/024316af8fa284f9ca54dbb695a52e27ebf9f848a5bbf8b590446c642641b258?
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 2.   [Arnan de Gans](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adegans/)  11:44 am _on_ October
     24, 2017
 3.  Developers… *rolleyes* hehe
 4.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea8b05a71fdd554f4d9b8d4ae4633f11f347dc99b64221166ee22c94d9bdb066?
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 5.   Anonymous User  2:18 pm _on_ October 24, 2017
 6.  This makes sense!
 7.  Keep up the good work guys 👍
 8.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9239c6f43d9aaf1bae47df3819442503e5e5cfd5016cdc2d226aa8d3549b19c9?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 9.   [Patrick Robrecht](https://profiles.wordpress.org/patrickrobrecht/)  5:13 pm 
     _on_ November 11, 2017
 10. [The Plugin Developer FAQ](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/plugin-developer-faq/#i-have-10-plugins-can-i-submit-them-all-at-once)
     still say:
 11. > I have 10 plugins. Can I submit them all at once? #I have 10 plugins. Can I 
     > submit them all at once?
     > You can but we recommend you submit them one at a time. […]
 12. Should be “No, you can’t.” now, right?
 13.  * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/27180c82524020e7339e2b30818b6d8ab004c54f730f12b1434b1e365be0e175?
        s=32&d=mm&r=g)
      *  [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu/)  10:25 pm
        _on_ November 15, 2017
      * That was fixed actually the same day you posted that 🙂 Helps to hit save!

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