Welcome to the official blog for the Plugins Team.
The team acts as gate-keepers and fresh eyes on newly submitted plugins, as well as reviewing any reported security or guideline violations.
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The team acts as gate-keepers and fresh eyes on newly submitted plugins, as well as reviewing any reported security or guideline violations.
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Call for testing: Gutenberg This is especially important if your 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 […]
As everyone knows, the first phase of opening up the directory to more reviewers was getting on the new system. We’re not quite there yet, however a great deal of progress has been made! So far, we’ve run into a few weird flow issues that are blocking us from being able to invite new people. […]
First of all I suck for not getting everyone’s names. I’m lucky I remember mine… This marks my first year as the rep of the 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 […]
Does the directory currently have a kind of ‘meh’ UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience – the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it.? Yes. Yes it does. We know it. We know search is chancy at best, and people (especially developers) […]
I know the 4.7 ‘please test’ email went out a bit late (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, blame Wapuu), but we […]
Intro
WordPress 4.7 will contain a significant re-architecture of how hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and […]
Summary: A great many things have been improved. Paramount was getting the data over (done!), syncing review stars with their new post IDs (done), and making the forums run faster (in progress). Support Forums Upgrade Status (2016/09/05): Please note: There was no way to actually test this properly before moving over, so while this is […]
Reviewer Workflow
WordPress 4.5 Release Candidate It bears repeating: Please test your plugins with 4.5.