Things got off to a gradual start in 2018 with momentum starting to pick up over the course of the month. There were some notable developments in January, including a new point release and work being done on other important areas of the WordPress project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 16, WordPress 4.9.2 was released<\/a> to fix an important security issue with the media player, as well as a number of other smaller bugs. This release goes a long way to smoothing out the 4.9 release cycle with the next point release, v4.9.3, due in early February<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get involved in building WordPress Core, jump into the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>, and follow the Core team blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of 2017, the guidelines for the Plugin Directory<\/a> received a significant update to make them clearer and expanded to address certain situations. This does not necessarily make these guidelines complete, but rather more user-friendly and practical; they govern how developers build plugins for the Plugin Directory, so they need to evolve with the global community that the Directory serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to contribute to these guidelines, you can make a pull request to the GitHub repository<\/a> or email plugins@wordpress.org<\/a>. You can also jump into the #pluginreview channel in the Making WordPress Slack group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUpdated Plugin Directory Guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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