{"id":5361,"date":"2018-08-26T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2020-02-09T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:59:26","slug":"wordpress-weekly-recap-plugin-guideline-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wordpress-weekly-recap-plugin-guideline-updates-5361\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress weekly recap #34: plugin guideline updates and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, Mika Epstein published an update for the guidelines regarding human-readable source code and the one for trialware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2018\/08\/21\/javascript-chat-summary-august-21\/\">JavaScript chat Summary \u2013 August 21<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2018\/08\/23\/php-meeting-recap-august-20th\/\">PHP Meeting Recap \u2013 August 20th<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2018\/08\/24\/dev-chat-summary-august-22-2018-4-9-9-weeks-1-2\/\">Dev Chat Summary: August 22, 2018 (4.9.9 weeks 1 &amp; 2)<\/a>\u00ab. There is no hard timeline for 5.0 yet, so it looks like 4.9.9 is going to be a regular 4\u20136 weeks release.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/design\/2018\/08\/22\/design-meeting-notes-for-august-22-2018\/\">Design Meeting Notes for August 22, 2018<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/support\/2018\/08\/august-23rd-support-team-meeting-summary\/\">August 23rd Support Team Meeting Summary<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Docs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/docs\/2018\/08\/20\/summary-for-helphub-meeting-20-august-2018\/\">Summary for HelpHub meeting 20 August 2018<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guideline update on trialware and human readability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mika Epstein published a post \u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/2018\/08\/23\/guideline-update-clarifications-to-trialware-and-human-readability\/\">Guideline Update: Clarifications to trialware and human readability<\/a>\u00ab that describes updates for the fourth and fifth plugin directory guidelines. Regarding human readability of code, if you use build tools that minify code, you have to include the source files in the plugin or provide a link to a public place where the source code can be reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides that, rule 5 was modified, which is about trialware that is not allowed in the directory. You can read more about the updates in Mika\u2019s post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/community\/2018\/08\/22\/recap-of-the-diversity-outreach-speaker-training-meeting-on-aug-22-2018\/\">Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on Aug 22, 2018<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/community\/2018\/08\/22\/wordpress-meetup-organizer-newsletter-august-2018\/\">WordPress meetup organizer newsletter: August 2018<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/training\/2018\/08\/23\/training-team-online-contributor-day-and-weekly-meeting-23-august-2018\/\">Training Team Online Contributor Day and Weekly Meeting 23 August 2018!<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WP-CLI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/cli\/2018\/08\/24\/wp-cli-v2-0-1-release-notes\/\">WP-CLI v2.0.1 Release Notes<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hosting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/2018\/08\/22\/hosting-meeting-notes-august-15th-2018\/\">Hosting Meeting Notes: August 15th, 2018<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/tide\/2018\/08\/21\/tide-chat-summary-august-14th\/\">Tide Chat Summary: August 14th<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Mika Epstein published an update for the guidelines regarding human-readable source code and the one for trialware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpf_show_in_dewp_planet_feed":false,"flobn_post_versions":"","webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-weekly-recap"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}