Source: Make WordPress: Plugins

  • Change to How Long Active Reviews Remain Open

    tl;dr Starting in October, you will have THREE (3) months to complete your review before we reject it. This will not affect most of you who actively read this site. For a very long time, we’ve allowed plugins 6 months to finish a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of…

  • X-post: [Announcement] New workflow for reporting documentation issues

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  • Inaccurate Stats Have Been Corrected

    It gives me no joy whatsoever to have to post this. A little over 100 plugins recently were impacted by a stats gathering change. This means those plugins had their active install stats seemingly adjusted downward. We understand this was painful for a number of developers and we held off on announcing this as we…

  • X-post: Gallery Block Refactor Dev Note

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  • X-post: Experiment: A Public Channel for All Team Reps

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  • X-post: Why hosters should install the PHP-intl extension

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  • X-post: Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins

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  • X-post: Proposal: A WordPress Project Contributor Handbook

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  • Trunk vs Tags? Which is Better? (Answer: Tags)

    tl;dr – We strongly recommend you use tagged folders for your releases of your plugins. Future you will thank you. While we have always advocated for people to use a tag folder with their plugins instead of trunk, it persists that a number of developers like using the “Stable TagTag Tag is one of the…

  • Reminder: Trademarked Logos Cannot Be Used In Banners/Icons

    tl;dr: Using someone else’s trademarked logo in 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 in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress.…