Team Name Change to “Plugins Team”

Since the team transition that took place in June 2023, the goals of the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Review Team have continued to grow. This change has been internally agreed upon, and we’re excited about the new name.

Here’s a quick summary of our main focus areas:

Review of New Plugin Submissions to the Directory

This has remained our primary task and takes up most of our time. We’re now receiving over 87% more weekly plugin submissions. Our goal is to keep the queue as short as possible and ensure a balanced workload across the team.

Improvement of Internal Tools

The Scanner tool has undergone major upgrades, now performing over 220 automated checks on plugins. This makes the review process more efficient and reliable. We’ve also introduced AI checks for plugin names, helping ensure clear and trademark-compliant naming from the start.

Creation and Improvement of Community Tools

Since Plugin Check Plugin was introduced to the community, it’s become increasingly integrated into workflows, helping plugin authors self-review their plugins and boosting the overall quality and security of the WordPress ecosystem.

The team is now actively contributing to its development, adding new checks, and we’re proposing to use it during plugin updates and commits as well.

Improvement of the Plugin Directory

We’ll be working closely with the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team to help review open tickets and propose new features we believe will improve plugin reliability and security.

We’ve come to feel that the name “Plugin Review Team” no longer reflects everything we do. That’s why we’re proposing a simplified name: “Plugins Team.” Interestingly, the Themes Team made a similar change some time ago.

So we propose updating the name across various community spaces:

• Page Title: https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/
• Mentions across wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ websites
• Community references: Moving forward, we kindly ask the community to refer to us as the Plugins Team.

We believe this small change is well deserved, given all the efforts the team has made to improve the WordPress plugin ecosystem. We’re looking forward to continuing to grow and evolve.

Post written by @davidperez, reviewed by @frantorres and @rabmalin