Stats of Plugins Team after WordCamp US

After WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US, we have prepared some insights about our team and we wanted to share it with the community.

These are the insights from the Plugins Team:

• We now have 60,187 plugins published in the directory.
• Today, we received as many new plugins and completed as many reviews as we did in the entire last year.
• We have received 7,670 new submissions this year, which is 87.3% more than in the same period last year.
• Since the start of the year, we have had an average of 235 new submissions per week. In the same period last year, there were 124 new plugins.
• The queue is less than one week, even though we have received many more submissions.
• On average, we spend 6.19 review cycles to approve 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, which is 11.2% fewer reviews per plugin compared to last year.
• 85.3% of first reviews made this year were initiated by an automated system that uses algorithms and AI to perform the first review of the plugin, requiring only minimal input from human reviewers, saving us time.
• 64.2% of plugin authors successfully engaged with the review process, which is 17.1% higher than the year before.
• Out of the plugin authors that followed the review process, 60.27% were approved.

In summary, although the number of submitted plugins is increasing, the team’s effort remains steady, thanks in part to AI automation in certain areas. Our goal is to continue improving by implementing AI in more checks, as well as introducing proactive scanning of the current Plugins Directory.

All this data was prepared on the 31th of August.

Written by @davidperez, reviewed by @frantorres