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The WordPress Ecosystem is Growing: New Plugin Submissions Have Doubled in 2025
This year, the number of plugins submitted has grown by 87% compared to last year 🌱 We have great news from the Plugins team. The submission of new plugins in WordPress has almost doubled this year, helping the WordPress ecosystem to grow. The WordPress developer community is celebrating as they maintain and increase their submissions…
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X-post: Help Test WordPress 6.8
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Plugin author now linked to WordPress.org profiles
The way the 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…
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A Year in the Plugins Review Team – 2024
It’s been a transformative year of growth in the WordPress Plugins Directory, particularly as the Plugins Team welcomed several new members onboard. Throughout this time, we remained focused on our primary goals: enhancing security, improving the review process, and fostering community engagement. Our security efforts have focused on creating tools to benefit all developers, including…
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Plugin Check Goals & Roadmap
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…
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Plugin Check and 2FA Now Mandatory For New Plugin Submissions
On September 17th, David Perez wrote a post on Make Plugins introducing Plugin Check (PCP), which also detailed how 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…
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Introducing Plugin Check (PCP)
The Plugin Check plugin has become a reality. It saw its first stable release earlier this year and has since been used by hundreds of developers. This post provides more context about Plugin Check and why you should start using it.
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Guidance on plugins that install other plugins
There are plugins in the directory that ask to install other plugins. This can happen for various reasons, and there are different contexts and cases. What do the current guidelines say? The current guidelines have different indications regarding the context in which other plugins are installed. For example: no tracking without consent, guidelines regarding executable…
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Upcoming Security Changes for Plugin and Theme Authors on WordPress.org
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 organization. https://wordpress.org/ is committed to protecting accounts that play a crucial role in the WordPress ecosystem.…
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X-post: Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer learning pathway
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/training: Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer learning pathway