{"id":673,"date":"2016-07-28T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/2016\/07\/28\/reminder-wordpress-4-6-is-imminent-are-your-plugins-ready-also-make-sure-your-email-is-valid\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:43:43","slug":"reminder-wordpress-4-6-is-imminent-are-your-plugins-ready-also-make-sure-your-email-is-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/2016\/07\/28\/reminder-wordpress-4-6-is-imminent-are-your-plugins-ready-also-make-sure-your-email-is-valid\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: WordPress 4.6 is imminent. Are your plugins ready? (also make sure your email is valid)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The email went out last night to everyone with commit access to a <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>plugin<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Plugin<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/<\/a> or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.<\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After testing your plugins and ensuring compatibility, it only takes a few moments to change the readme \u201cTested up to:\u201d value to 4.6. This information provides peace of mind to users and helps encourage them to update to the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>For each plugin that is compatible, you don\u2019t need to release a new version \u2014 just change the stable version\u2019s readme value.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to get more familiar with 4.6? Read this roundup post on the core development blog to check out the changes made to register_meta(), native fonts, persistent comment cache, Customizer APIs, WP_HTTP API, and much, much more: https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2016\/07\/26\/wordpress-4-6-field-guide\/<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all you do for the WordPress community, and we hope you enjoy 4.6 as much as we do.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, as we\u2019ve been warning for the last two cycles, some plugins have been closed. It\u2019s a requirement that we be able to contact you. We\u2019ve also been pushing back on auto-replies, since they make it impossible for us to tell if there\u2019s a human reading. Frankly, based on the content of the auto-replies, this is the cycle we see:<\/p>\n<p>We email you and receive an auto reply of \u201cA support ticket has been created\u2026\u201d  We email a warning \u201cHey, please remove us from this auto reply\u2026\u201d and we get another auto reply. We don\u2019t reply to that one, but 3 months later when we send another email, the cycle starts anew. This tells us that you are <em>not<\/em> actually reading your support emails. Which means we have no way to contact you (and your users probably hate you, just FYI). So this time, plugins have been closed.<\/p>\n<p>Your plugin has been closed (or you were removed from a plugin) based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have auto-replied to our \u2018Are your plugin ready?\u2019 email 4+ times, and your plugin has not been updated in 2+ years<\/li>\n<li>If your email bounced<\/li>\n<li>If your auto-reply says \u201cI\u2019m on vacation until\u2026\u201d and it\u2019s a invalid future date (example: someone\u2019s out of office said they\u2019d be back August 2014\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>If your auto-reply said you no longer work at a company<\/li>\n<li>If your auto-reply says the company no longer exists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the only valid emails for the plugin meet those criteria, the plugin was closed. If it was only <em>one<\/em> committer, they were removed and everyone else was emailed and notified.<\/p>\n<p>In all cases we <strong>absolutely<\/strong> emailed each and every one of you. I did it myself. 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