Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 12:55 am on December 30, 2020
Tags:   

Plugin Review Team Update: 28 Dec 2020

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 : 144
  • Plugins rejected : 93
  • Plugins closed : 16
  • Plugins approved : 81

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 596
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 525
  • → (2020-12-21 – 2020-12-28) : 45
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 1
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 595

HelpScout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 250
  • New Conversations: 168
  • Customers: 218
  • Conversations per Day: 31
  • Busiest Day: Tuesday
  • Email Conversations: 168
  • Messages Received: 315
  • Replies Sent: 372
  • Emails Created: 104
  • Resolved: 142
  • Resolved on First Reply: 25%

#plugins

elibud 1:50 pm on December 29, 2020
Tags:   

Mobile Team Update – December 15th and 29th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 16.4 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.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

  • 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. Editor: Added support for the file block, fixed an issue with removing the heading block when it was empty, improved gallery block uploads when the editor is closed, and added the duplicate post functionality.
  • Full Site Editing: We refined the homepage picker and we fixed previewing the homepage from the editor.
  • Other Projects: Several bug fixes and small improvements across the aps.
  • Infrastructure:  We enabled an iOS localization linter.

#mobile

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:27 am on December 22, 2020
Tags:   

Plugin Review Team Update: 21 Dec 2020

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 : 153
  • Plugins rejected : 10
  • Plugins closed : 29
  • Plugins approved : 68

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 667
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 583
  • → (2020-12-14 – 2020-12-21) : 66
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 10
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 657

HelpScout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 329
  • New Conversations: 236
  • Customers: 269
  • Conversations per Day: 41
  • Busiest Day: Wednesday
  • Email Conversations: 236
  • Messages Received: 360
  • Replies Sent: 442
  • Emails Created: 142
  • Resolved: 182
  • Resolved on First Reply: 35%

#plugins

Naoko Takano 1:52 am on December 16, 2020  

Polyglots Team Update (Dec. 16)

Our meeting agendas and notes for the past weeks:

Stats (between December 2nd and 9th)

  • 49 (-10) locales are up-to-date. There are 12 locales (-0) behind by a minor version and 24(+13) behind by a major version. Note: as of Dec. 11th, 48 locales show as 100% translate for 5.6
  • There are 17 unresolved editor requests out of 3,831 (+18) and 14 unresolved locale requests out of 145 (-0).
  • There are 689 GTEs (+2), 4,959 (+5) PTEs, and 47,898 (+178) translation contributors.
  • Non-en-US sites are now at 55.294% (-0.006%) of active installs.

Updates

#polyglots

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:48 am on December 15, 2020
Tags:   

Plugin Review Team Update: 14 Dec 2020

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 : 9
  • Plugins closed : 10
  • Plugins approved : 52

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 635
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 562
  • → (2020-12-08 – 2020-12-15) : 72
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 10
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 625

HelpScout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 292
  • New Conversations: 199
  • Customers: 256
  • Conversations per Day: 36
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Email Conversations: 199
  • Messages Received: 326
  • Replies Sent: 386
  • Emails Created: 117
  • Resolved: 158
  • Resolved on First Reply: 28%

#plugins

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:33 am on December 8, 2020
Tags:   

Plugin Review Team Update: 07 Dec 2020

The bounced emails from the 5.6 message have all been processed, as well as the normal end-of month rejections for plugins that have not finished a review in 6 months.

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 : 131
  • Plugins rejected : 88
  • Plugins closed : 312
  • Plugins approved : 54

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 608
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 536
  • → (2020-11-30 – 2020-12-07) : 58
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 11
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 597

HelpScout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 505
  • New Conversations: 228
  • Customers: 300
  • Conversations per Day: 63
  • Busiest Day: Thursday
  • Email Conversations: 228
  • Messages Received: 373
  • Replies Sent: 445
  • Emails Created: 126
  • Resolved: 204
  • Resolved on First Reply: 31%

#plugins

Naoko Takano 5:48 am on December 3, 2020
Tags:   

Polyglots Team Update (November 30)

Our meeting agendas and notes:

Stats (between November 12th and 25th)

  • 48 (+3) locales are up-to-date. There are 12 locales (-2) behind by a minor version and 12 (-1) behind by a major version.
  • There are 21 unresolved editor requests out of 3,790 (+42) and 14 unresolved locale requests out of 145 (-1).
  • There are 686 GTEs (+1), 4,927 (+31) PTEs, and 47,174 (+368) translation contributors.
  • Non-en-US sites are now at 55.291% (+0.05%) of active installs.

Other updates

#polyglots

elibud 2:00 pm on December 1, 2020
Tags:   

Mobile Team Update – December 1st

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 16.3 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.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

  • 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. Editor/Full Site Editing: We’ve updated the Separator block to extend to the edges, and added support for background and text color in the Group, Paragraph, and Quote blocks.
  • Other Projects: We added categories to the pre-publishing sheet and we fixed a lot of bugs all over the apps.
  • Infrastructure: We investigated existing issues with localization in WordPress iOS and GlotPress tooling, and we made numerous tooling fixes and updates for localization, build issues, and more.

#mobile

Francesca Marano 7:00 am on December 1, 2020
Tags:   

Core Team Update: November 2020

Current major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality.: WordPress 5.6

The month of November 2020 was a busy one for WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

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/

  • At the beginning of every month, planned tasks are posted. This is what was planned for November.
  • Gutenberg 9.3 and 9.4 were released

Miscellaneous blog posts, updates, and discussions published in the Core Blog

For more granular updates, check the Week In Core.

#core

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:24 pm on November 30, 2020
Tags:   

Plugin Review Team Update: 30 Nov 2020

The higher than normal closures (and emails) are due to bounced developer emails resulting in closed plugins.

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 : 161
  • Plugins rejected : 2
  • Plugins closed : 339
  • Plugins approved : 60

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 633
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 527
  • → (2020-11-23 – 2020-11-30) : 95
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 40
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 593

HelpScout Stats

  • Total Conversations: 744
  • New Conversations: 649
  • Customers: 419
  • Conversations per Day: 93
  • Busiest Day: Monday
  • Email Conversations: 649
  • Messages Received: 815
  • Replies Sent: 536
  • Emails Created: 160
  • Resolved: 224
  • Resolved on First Reply: 34%

#plugins