Plugins team update for March 5, 2015

Repository stats for the week:

Plugins requested : 228
Plugins rejected : 44
Plugins closed : 38
Plugins approved : 178

69 open requests, 23 without a reply and 1 older than a week.

6685 commits to the repository (1099768-1106453)

69 open support requests, 8 older than a week.

A number of important updates to 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 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 repository have been deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. in the last week or so. First, plugin ratings were rebuilt, so as to include only those ratings accompanied by reviews. See @ipstenu‘s post describing the change. And a new theme for the plugin repo was launched; read more about it in this announcement by @coffee2code.

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