It’s been a great year for the WordPress Plugins Team. You can see the numbers in a summary in Make’s post. As a result, it was a great WordCamp US, where Matt Mullenweg gave a keynote presentation on the community’s key advancements. Of course, I got a special mention for the Plugins team.
Finally, plugins. With had, you know, I got on stage last year, one of the things I did talk about was also how the plugin directory was in kind of a rough spot at that point.
We had I think, you know, the queues were months long. There were hundreds and hundreds. I am proud to say that now we have over 60,000 plugins and 73,000 total plugins and themes. The plugin submissions have almost doubled year-over-year. Yet the queue is now basically down to under a week. So, there’s a very — it is incredible.
This has been one of the teams that’s doing some of the best work across the whole dot org ecosystem both with the plugin work and the manual labor and the coaching people and mentoring all the things and leveraging Al to automate a lot of things.
It’s very been cool. Let’s give — if you are on the plugins team, do you mind standing up really quick so we can give you a round of applause.
There we go. Yeah
Matt Mullenveg en WordCamp US 2025
It’s a pitty I couldn’t be there. It’s actually one of the big WordCamps I’d like to attend, and I’m looking forward to it.
This definitely gives us a boost to continue collaborating as a team and evolving into proactive reviews, that is, being able to automate code reviews for plugin updates.
