Mika Epstein shows how you can…
Mika Epstein shows how you can create your own custom oEmbed in WordPress.
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Marco Almeida writes about his experience…
Marco Almeida writes about his experience with one WordPress plugin reviewer and the rejection of one of his plugins. 🤼 He followed up on that post a short time ago: I had a very civil and friendly chat with Mika Epstein over at the Making WordPress Slack channel… I still do not agree with the…
Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…
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. 😲 Mika explains how bad this got for our volunteer reviewers:…
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about burnout as well. 😖 The Open Source Economist: In this episode of The Open Source…
Plugin repo and frameworks
There’s a newly clarified policy on Make Plugins from Mika Epstein where she says that developer frameworks are no longer going to be approved for the plugin repo. Plugins like CMB2, Advanced Custom Fields and others that may be dependencies of other plugins, and are not feature plugins of their own, would theoretically not be allowed. However,…
Mika Epstein has published a proposal…
Mika Epstein has published a proposal to modify the WordPress plugin guidelines. 🔌 Mika’s plan covers several areas but focuses on advertising and the clutter of the WordPress dashboard: Our understanding is that a cluttered and unmanageable Dashboard upsets users, making it harder for them to do what they want. This behavior, if enacted by…
Mika Epstein notifies developers of a…
Mika Epstein notifies developers of a recent plugin guideline change in the WordPress plugin repo. Guideline 12 (“Public facing pages on WordPress.org may not spam”) is now more clear in broadcasting the message “Do not use your readme to spam.” This includes tags, keyword stuffing, and affiliate links. Guideline 13 has been completely rewritten for…
