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Notice: Community Code of Conduct Meeting 4 Sept
The Code of Conduct will apply to all 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.…
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Unused Plugins Closed
I’m happy to say that at this point, all plugins that were approved and never used (that is, never had any code uploaded, ever) have been closed. Roughly 8500 plugins were closed for never having any code committed to them since approval. In addition, the plugins that have been broken since we migrated to the new…
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Guideline Update: Clarifications to trialware and human readability
Two situations have arisen where we feel it would be best to clarify the guidelines a little. Guideline 4: Human Readability We strongly feel that one of the strengths of open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source…
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Reminder: Check your Boilerplates
Boilerplates are hugely popular and can save you a lot of time getting started. That’s great. However … The number one reason for 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…
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Document Titles for Repo Plugins
The Growth Council has submitted its proposed updates to document titles and meta descriptions across the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and…
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WP 4.9.6, Privacy, Hooks, and You
WordPress 4.9.6 has been released. This was a focused release, a little different than other minor releases, in that it adds a system for a privacy policy to WordPress. While the only change to plugins has been our requirement that you not claim (or imply) 100% compliance in anything, the changes to privacy awareness are far reaching.…
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Closing Unused Plugins
When you submit a 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…
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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/05/01/javascript-internationalization-the-missing-pieces/
JavaScript Internationalization: The Missing Pieces
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Legal Compliance Added to Guidelines
Guideline 9 (Developers and their plugins must not do anything illegal, dishonest, or morally offensive.) has been amended to include the following new prohibition: implying that a 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…
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Plugin SVN Migrated
EDIT: Plugins tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. is up and running again. Everything should be good now. -Otto As with all those things we migrated, SVNSVN Short for “SubVersioN”, it’s the code management system used to maintain the plugins hosted on WordPress.org. It’s…