Plugin Review Team: 18 March 2024

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 130
  • Plugins rejected : 2
  • Plugins closed : 45
  • Plugins approved : 86

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2255
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 2053
    • (2024-03-11 – 2024-03-17) : 166
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 446
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1809
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1617
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 170
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 22

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1351
  • New Conversations: 670
  • Customers: 1007
  • Conversations per Day: 168
  • Busiest Day: Saturday
  • Messages Received: 1183
  • Replies Sent: 1032
  • Emails Created: 193

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Test Team Update: 11 March 2024

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

📊 Current totals (since Mar 04, 2024):

  • Need testing info: 15 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2148 (change: +9)
  • Need patch testing: 207 (change: -3)
  • Need unit tests: 115 (change: -1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 161 (change: -1)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 14 (change: +9)
  • Need patch testing: 3 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 8 (change: -4)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1 (change: -5)
  • Need patch testing: 2 (change: -1)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 20 (change: -5)

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Mobile Team Update – March 12th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 24.4 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on “Become a beta tester”.

#mobile

Themes team update March 12, 2024

i) 🎟 Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 74 tickets are assigned.
    • 3 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 27 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 50 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 61 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 0 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 784 tickets were opened
  • 772 tickets were closed
    • 764 tickets were made live.
      • 6 new Themes were made live.
      • 758 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 8 tickets were not approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 4 (@acosmin@kafleg@fahimmurshed@vowelweb)

ii) 💻 BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

  • 21 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 4 Block theme has been live in the last 7 days

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 9Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 8Emails Created 1
Resolved 3Resolved on First Reply 100%

iv) 📝Handbook Stats

iv) 📊Extras

  • Create Block Theme 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 now has 9000+ active installs. There are 75 active issues and 9 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 6 PRs and 38 issues.

#themes, #weekly-updates

Core Performance Team Update: February 2024

Tickets and contributions

The Performance Team works on performance-related tickets in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and holds a fortnightly Bug Scrub on Wednesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

The Performance Team is focusing on upcoming tickets for WordPress 6.5, including the Performant Translations work #59656, and support for the AVIF image format #51228. The team have created several dev notes for the Performance work included in WordPress 6.5:

Interactivity APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.

The Performance Team has been supporting on the efforts for the interactivity API TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket #60356 has now been merged as part of WordPress 6.5 which will allow new interactive features to be shipped to users using less client-side JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/., resulting in better metrics for LCP, CLS and INP. The merge announcement post provides additional information.

Server Response Improvements

In addition to the performance improvements to the I18n system and for registering BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Type Variations—both of which target server response times—the team also worked on:

  • Improving Block Pattern registration performance (#59532)
  • Improving the performance of the new 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 Dependencies feature (#60518

Plugin Checker

The Performance Team has continued work on the Plugin Checker, collaborating closely with the Plugin Review team and are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0, which alongside a new technical foundation brings several enhancements, such as WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ support. 

Additional Plugins

The Performance Team are also working on 2 new plugins; Embed Optimizer and Optimization Detective. Please see#core-performance channel in Slack for more details on when these will be released.

Team headlines and updates

The team has been working closely on profiling WordPress 6.5 throughout betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. this month and look forward to sharing the results once the release is out.

Performance Lab Plugin

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month.
February’s release 2.9.0 included several enhancements for working towards creating standalone plugins. It now recommends the new plugins “Auto Sizes for Lazy-loaded Images” and “Speculation Rules” (958), and it comes with an enhanced generator tag that includes the standalone plugin slugs (949). A  Server-Timing headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. bug has been fixed (957). The team are working towards the major 3.0.0 milestone which will introduce separate plugins, where the user will be asked to install/activate the standalone plugins instead of the previously used PL modules.

#core-performance, #performance

Plugin Review Team: 27 February 2024

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 133
  • Plugins rejected : 1
  • Plugins closed : 26
  • Plugins approved : 55

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2202
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1908
    • (2024-02-19 – 2024-02-25) : 199
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 488
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1714
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1348
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 353
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 13

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 912
  • New Conversations: 209
  • Customers: 661
  • Conversations per Day: 114
  • Busiest Day: Friday
  • Messages Received: 424
  • Replies Sent: 509
  • Emails Created: 116

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Core Team Update – March 11, 2024

Overview

  • DevChat meeting held on March 6.
    • The agenda with post highlights and updates from next releases and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
    • The summary.
  • DevChat meeting held on February 28.

Code Overview

Data is from March 4 – March 11.

Releases

Highlights:

Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

#core, #core-editor

Core Performance Team Update: June 2023

Tickets and contributions

The Performance Team works on performance-related tickets in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and holds a fortnightly Bug Bash on Wednesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

For the upcoming WordPress 6.3 release, the WordPress performance team has been focusing on closing several issues for the 6.3 release.

The Performance Team is happy to be able to report that the PR for #12009 was committed to WordPress core, closing a 13 year old ticket. This is a big milestone for the team, thank you to everyone who contributed to get this across the line. There is still a desire to extend support to inline scripts, so a new ticket has been opened (#58632) for that discussion, and several use-cases for the new APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. across WordPress core and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ are being discussed.

Additionally, the team is excited to share that we landed fetchpriority=”high” support #58235 in WordPress core. The commit [56037] includes notable refactoring to make the logic that was previously scoped to only lazy-loading more broadly available, as it is also required for fetchpriority. With that refactoring it also unblocks a fix to another issue that still needs to be addressed with lazy-loading: #58635

Both of these performance enhancements will launch as part of the upcoming WordPress 6.3 release.

For raw performance enhancements, 3 major highlights are:

  • Emoji loader script causes ~100ms long task #58472 (~20% LCP improvement, committed in [56074])
  • Performance issue in register_block_style_handle function #58528 (~30% server response time improvement for blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. themes, committed in [56044])
  • Improve performance of get_block_templates function #57756 (~15% server response time improvement for block themes, committed in [55687])

The Plugin Checker engineering has been completed for milestone 2 which now also includes additional checks. Progress can be seen in this GitHub repo, which eventually should be transferred to the WordPress organization. 

Team headlines and updates

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. Europe contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. was a great success – thank you to those who joined! There were 2 performance tables this year; the first focused on the script loading strategy API testing the PR by modifying some plugins and core code to use it, and the second focused on profiling and benchmarking. 

Several new articles were added to the Performance Handbook this month:

Performance Lab 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

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month.

May’s release 2.4.0 includes further enhancements to creating stand-alone plugins and infrastructure, as well as some small bug fixes. 

The Performance Lab plugin has also reached 80k active installations this month!

#core-performance, #performance

Plugin Review Team: 11 March 2024

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 128
  • Plugins rejected : 13
  • Plugins closed : 555
  • Plugins approved : 77

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2219
    • (older than 7 days ago)** : 1972
    • (2024-03-04 – 2024-03-10) : 190
    • (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 460
    • (pending; replied to)* : 1759
    • (pending; waiting on author)* : 1557
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 185
    • (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 17

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 1430
  • New Conversations: 1009
  • Customers: 1223
  • Conversations per Day: 178
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Messages Received: 861
  • Replies Sent: 1551
  • Emails Created: 905

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Test Team Update: 4 March 2024

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

📊 Current totals (since Feb 26, 2024):

  • Need testing info: 15 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 2139 (change: -27)
  • Need patch testing: 210 (change: -4)
  • Need unit tests: 116 (change: +1)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 162 (change: -3)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need reproduce issue: 7 (change: -6)
  • Need patch testing: 11 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: -3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 19 (change: +11)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 6 (change: +3)
  • Need patch testing: 3 (change: +0)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 30 (change: +18)

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