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At it’s heart, the Readme.txt file is pretty basic. You put in the information, it generates a WordPress page. Of course, it’s not all simple magic, and there are some weird things to be aware of. To help people better understand how it works, the Plugin Directory documentation has been updated, but here’s a quick…

Normally this comes up because we have to explain that paying a single person for a review is bribery. This isn’t that. I’m talking about when company or consultant on those websites like Fourrer (not it’s real name) offers to, for $50 or $450, leave 5 star reviews on your pluginPlugin A plugin is a…

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In January 2017 we clarified what was meant by not spamming in the directory. Since then, the language has been tweaked slightly, but the crux of the matter remains as follows: Public facing pages on WordPress.org (readmes) must not spam To whit: Public facing pages, including readmes and translation files, may not be used to…

The old warning 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 features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

The previously proposed changes have been merged into the plugin guidelines. It’s important to note that I do not think this is a ‘complete’ or ‘finished’ project. The guidelines are imperfect, in part because it’s impossible to create a rule for every single possible variant of a possible conflict, but also because we cannot predict…

I do this regularly, but recently I received a comment that the guidelines were still too vague. I need to stress that this is by intent. If we make guidelines like “You can only have 3 external links” then people will find ways to exploit that. However I do not think that guidelines are perfect. Which…

This post was corrected at 1901 UTC In the last 24 hours, a fair amount of plugins were “updated” even though no one pushed any code. At first we thought this to be due to a re-run of the string importer, but as it continued, Otto theorized it was actually due to the checksum generator.…

One of the ideas that came from WCEU was a centralized dashboard 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 websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language…