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Marco Almeida writes about his experience…

ByDan Knauss

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…

What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.
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What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.

ByMichelle Frechette

WordPress 6.1 is here, and it’s awesome! It takes more than a village — really a small city — to keep us moving forward. Thank a contributor — there are thousands of them. • Thanks especially to Mika Epstein! It’s beyond brave of Mika to share what she has gone through for the Plugins Team and the whole community. No one should ever have to go through what she has. You should know her story if you don’t.

If you’ve ever wanted to add…

ByBrian Krogsgard

If you’ve ever wanted to add something to the “publish box” in the WordPress editor, it’s not as hard as I would’ve anticipated. Mika Epstein shows how in a recent tutorial, which is cool, because I was just thinking recently about how I wanted to put some additional information there.

Mika Epstein has a sober but…

ByDan Knauss

Mika Epstein has a sober but important post on being burned out from harassment in the WordPress space. Mika’s work on the Plugins team has been especially trying thanks to one plugin author who — despite warnings and a ban — made threats and sent her massive amounts of hostile and threatening emails. 😠 The…

After the recent discovery of REST…

ByDan Knauss

After the recent discovery of REST API vulnerabilities in WordPress 4.7.1 and 4.7 Mika Epstein wrote an impactful post recently entitled “A Case for REST API”. I really like this calm approach to the subject – I highly recommend you take a minute to read her thoughts. The bottom line: leaving the REST API on…

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…