Title: About
Author: Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
Published: May 4, 2015
Last modified: August 29, 2016

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#  About

The Plugins Review Team is made up of a small handful of individuals who review 
all 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. submissions, handle complaints, 
guideline violations, and security alerts for any plugin hosted in the 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/](https://wordpress.org/) Plugin Directory.

At this time, the team is **not** open for the general public to join, due to myriad
technical issues with the system setup. We do encourage people to report issues (
guidelines and security) to `plugins@wordpress.org`

For help submitting plugins to the [WordPress.org Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins),
please visit the [Plugin Developer Handbook pages for the Plugin Directory](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/).

Our guidelines can be found at the [WordPress.org Plugin Directory Guidelines](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/).

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