Last July, the Meetup Reactivation Project was launched. We sought support from around the world as we believe local community leaders have the networks and experiences to help reactivate WordPress Meetups. Three updates on the Global Meetup Reactivation Project have Continue reading Update: APAC Meetup Reactivation Project
The Community Team chat takes place the first Thursday of every month. This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the things our team does. Feel free Continue reading Community Team Meeting Agenda for 2 February 2023
Today I published a new version of the Regional WordCamps page in the WordCamps handbook. It’s assembled from the conversations that we as a group had starting the middle of last year. If you have any issues or find any Continue reading Updates to the Regional WordCamps Handbook Page
It’s time to add your voice to what you’d like to see the Community Team accomplish as a group for 2023. As you can see in brainstorming posts from 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016, every year we collected and shortlisted a long list of Continue reading Community Team Goals for 2023: Call for Suggestions
tl;dr: Do you have demo plugins that are dangerous on purpose? We want to see them! One of the behind-the-scenes steps going on right now is figuring out HOW to onboard and make sure people are good at looking through Continue reading Looking for your (intentionally) wrong plugins
We are excited to announce the Community Team Reps for 2023. For 2023, we have selected 3 team reps compare to 2 team reps in the past. All 3 nominees are now accepted as new team reps. Junko Nukaga Junko Continue reading Community Team Reps for 2023
Throughout 2022, the Community Team has been focused on a wide range of goals. These goals encompassed improvements to our programs and projects, creating new educational content, and improved outreach and coordination across the various sub-groups of the team. Support Continue reading Community Team 2022 Goals Recap
After State of the Word, you may have noticed a couple new things for plugins and themes. This is the start of a broader categorization of plugins and themes. The eventual goal of which is to help users to better Continue reading Plugins/themes categorization
State of the Word 2021 is just around the corner and it’s the perfect opportunity to organize a watch party for your community. Join others from around the world as co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, presents this year’s WordPress keynote address from Continue reading Plan Your State of the Word Watch Party Today!
WordPress 6.1, planned for November 1, 2022, is now ready to be translated on translate.wordpress.org! The new strings are in the development projects. The strings for WordPress 6.0 have been moved to projects/wp/6.0.x. As for previous releases, most of new Continue reading WordPress 6.1 ready to be translated
tl;dr: Heroku’s free plan is going away. Please update your services and make sure all your 3rd party libraries are up to date. From their recent post: Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage Continue reading Heroku Free Tier Being Retired
Following the traditions of the past few years and in recognition of the International Translation Day which is celebrated on 30 September, this post is to officially begin the discussion, planning as well as execution of the WordPress Translation Day Continue reading Announcement: WordPress Translation Day 2022
tl;dr Google, who already blocked anyone from emailing a zip with a JS file inside, has moved to blocking them as ‘viruses’ entirely. This week a new hassle popped up with anyone who uses Google Drive. If you’re not the Continue reading Google Drive is Flagging Plugins as ‘Viruses’
In March, I kicked off a discussion in this blog on revisiting regional in-person WordCamps. A big thank you to all of you for sharing exciting and diverse perspectives and concerns on regional in-person events. I have attempted to summarize Continue reading Regional In-person WordCamps Going Forward
WordPress 6.0, planned for May 24, 2022, is now ready to be translated on translate.wordpress.org! The new strings are in the development projects. The strings for WordPress 5.9 have been moved to projects/wp/5.9.x. As for previous releases, most of new Continue reading WordPress 6.0 ready to be translated
tl;dr: Never test vulnerabilities on someone else’s live site without their permission. By now, a lot of you have read the post about the so-called “WordPress Plugin Confusion” whereby a plugin hosted on WordPress.org can ‘override’ a plugin not hosted Continue reading Please don’t ‘test’ submitting other people’s plugins.
tl;dr Starting in October, you will have THREE (3) months to complete your review before we reject it. This will not affect most of you who actively read this site. For a very long time, we’ve allowed plugins 6 months Continue reading Change to How Long Active Reviews Remain Open
It gives me no joy whatsoever to have to post this. A little over 100 plugins recently were impacted by a stats gathering change. This means those plugins had their active install stats seemingly adjusted downward. We understand this was Continue reading Inaccurate Stats Have Been Corrected