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Footnotes #456

ByDan Knauss

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…

Plugin repo and frameworks

ByBrian Krogsgard

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 notifies developers of a…

ByBrian Krogsgard

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…