Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a…
Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a photo gallery plugin for WordPress with a pro version) for crossing 3 million downloads in the WordPress.org repo. ๐
Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a photo gallery plugin for WordPress with a pro version) for crossing 3 million downloads in the WordPress.org repo. ๐
Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their safety at upcoming WordCamps. ๐ฒ Mika explains how bad this got for our volunteer reviewers:…
I’m looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I’m glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the case in some hosting environments.) But the forced on-by-default generation of WebP images when you…
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I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic’s business, and more.
๐ Is Growth in Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining? Along with some other people, I have been intensely watching the active install growth charts on the WordPress.org plugin repository for a variety of plugins for the past few months. Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in that area this…
There’s a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structuredย around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose whichย themes get featured on the WordPress theme showcase, based on how many themes they review and approve in a given month….