There is a proposal to update the guidelines for plugin reviews to allow pro-related reviews, perhaps in some cases.

Five for the Future is a WordPress project program that encourages companies and individuals to contribute 5% of their resources or time to WordPress. While the program is very successful in that a number of organizations sponsor employee involvement, the program hasn’t gotten a lot of organizational attention in the past.

At a recent Community Summit a team met to review the program and identified some suggestions to help make the program more impactful. These are summarized in this make blog article.

The number of items in the queue for plugin review is going down as WordPress businesses step-up and sponsor team members.

WordPress com is Automattic’s hosting platform and if you have a paid Creator plan or above then you can install WP plugins. This is a list of the most installed free plugins on dot com in 2023.

Group member Sagar Patel posted on X about the problem getting plugins approved for WordPress org.

Did you know that WordPress org now has a job board? Job postings are available in 11 categories.

Major sections of the developer resources pages on WP org have been redesigned. A a block theme was used.

The new showcase page on WordPress org has been released. It was built using Gutenberg. It is attractive and you can click on any site thumbnail to go a page with more information.

When the WordPress Playground, or the ability to run WordPress in the browser, was first announced, people wondered what the use cases might be. Previewing core pull requests is an interesting one.