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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 9:30 am on February 3, 2016
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Plugin Review “Inconsistencies”

A few people have complained that they feel the review process is inconsistent. I’d like to take a moment to explain exactly why that happens. The tl;dr is, of course, humans make mistakes. But if you really want to understand what’s going on, read on! There is no automated review process This is the big […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 5:04 am on April 21, 2015
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Reminder: Please Test Your Plugins With 4.2

WordPress 4.2 is being released this week. Are your plugins ready? After testing your plugins and ensuring compatibility, it only takes a few moments to change the readme “Tested up to:” value to 4.2. This information provides peace of mind to users and helps encourage them to update to the latest version. For each pluginPlugin […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 12:00 am on November 19, 2015
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AutoReply Sucks

Did you know we have no auto-replies at all sent from WordPress plugins? Every single email, even the predefined ones, are written and picked and sent by hand. Even the one that goes out to all 22,573 user accounts with commit access to a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 4:03 pm on August 19, 2015
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Plugin Submission ZIP files

This comes up now and then so I thought we should have a quick post about what 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 […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 5:31 pm on June 5, 2015
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‘Policy’ on PHP Versions

The official stance of 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/ is that WordPress is supported on PHP 5.2.4 or greater. […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 6:00 am on May 4, 2015
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Reporting Plugin Issues

Note: I’ll be using Hello Dolly as my example ‘bad’ 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 […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 9:47 pm on November 3, 2014
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Post Summit Status

The number one question asked at the summit of me was “Can I join 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 your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP […]

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 8:12 pm on January 20, 2014  

TinyMCE 4.0

In case you missed the announcement over on Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., we’re moving to TinyMCE 4.0 I shall quote: This is a major upgrade for the WordPress editor. There are many changes in 4.0: New UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface […]

Samuel Wood (Otto) 6:12 pm on June 9, 2012
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The Plugins directory and readme.txt files

Every once in a while, somebody pings me to say that their 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 […]

Jon Cave 7:38 pm on April 9, 2013
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Review an intentionally vulnerable plugin

Imagine that another 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 […]