To be honest, everything is explained in the article you’ve linked: To run WordPress we recommend your host supports: PHP version 7.3 or greater. MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater. HTTPS support So yes – that’s only recommendation (as WordPress definitely will work without HTTPS for example). And later in … Read more
I think that is the wrong way. What you might consider to to is to create an wp_schedule_event and then run http://www.abc.de/wp-cron.php per cPanel-Cron, that should work and will be a better way in the “idea” of WordPress. -Edit- Create an cron.php (or whatever you would like to call that file) in you plugin. Than … Read more
I sent an email to [email protected], and they resolved the issue. They replied with the following reason: Why This Happened Due to the high volume of mail and signups we have at WordPress.org, and the sadly high number of fake accounts, we have a very complex system to try and catch bad actors before they … Read more
Anything updated since late 2010 or so should be pretty reliable. The Guidelines have been pretty much stable since fall 2010 or so. As for existing Themes in the repository: I think most of the Theme Review Team would like to see some policy implemented in which obsolete Themes could be suspended; however, that decision … Read more
Late answer A mini plugin as local API This plugin gives you – after you filled in the slug of your repository – the downloads stats as array. The keys are the dates, the values the downloads. <?php /** Plugin Name: (#84254) Plugin stats API */ function wpse84254_get_download_stats() { $response = wp_remote_request( add_query_arg( ‘slug’ ,’YOUR-REPO-PLUGIN-SLUG’ … Read more
This page has a link to its feed in its header. If you are using a browser that has implemented auto-discovery already, you get an icon for that in the address bar. The URL is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss/browse/new/
Does WordPress provide themes_api function?
Send and email to [email protected] and they can help you try to get in touch with the original plugin author. If the author is no where to be found and you can show that your able to keep it up to date it is possible that you could be allowed to take it over.
First visit https://wordpress.org/plugins/yourpluginslug to see if your desired slug is in use by an existing plugin. If it exists and you don’t want to change the name, a -2 will automatically be appended when you submit your plugin and it passes review. Your plugin must be GPLv2 licenced or GPLv2 compatible and under 25mb when … Read more
How exactly does WordPress load themes from api.wordpress.org?