Welcome to theMetaMetaMeta 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!
The Meta team is responsible for maintaining and managingWordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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. Our work is mostly done on themeta trac. If you see a bug,file a ticket!
Over the past few weeks, theMetaMetaMeta 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 has been working on a new theme for thePlugin Directory. This visual refresh is part of the continued effort to establish a consistent design language acrossWordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/. The updated site launched today. Congratulations to everyone involved in this effort.
The update’s primary focus was to standardize the site’s layout, fonts, spacing, and colors with other newly updated sections of WordPress.org. This follows the recentPattern Directory refreshand theForums refreshlaunched a few weeks prior.
The Plugin Directory refresh is now live for WordPress.org and all foreign-language sites (Rosetta sites). Some translation work may need to be done for each locale, and that can be managed in theWordPress Plugin Directoryproject.
It’s important to note that this refresh is not a complete redesign. Over the years, there have beenmany discussionsthroughout the community on how the Plugin Directory could be improved—everything from a completely different homepage layout and more data for plugin authors to better search and plugin categorization. The aesthetic updates completed in this iteration do not fundamentally change the Plugin Directory, but they do set the stage for future, more consequential improvements.
Minor iterations and follow-ups are planned in the next few weeks as the community begins using the directory and any new issues are created. There are also a fewaccessibility issuesthat will be addressed post-launch, and I wanted to highlight the following open discussions:
If you find an issue or have suggestions for larger functional changes, please add an item to the WordPress.orgissues queueonGitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host,private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner.https://github.com/or inMeta Trac.
Finally, make sure to join the#website-redesignSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platformhttps://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel athttps://make.wordpress.org/chat/.channel if you are interested in additional updates coming to WordPress.org and want to contribute. Thanks!