Now the new theme review process offloads more of the responsibility onto the theme author rather than requiring input from a member of the WordPress Theme Review team..
But theme developers have always had to deal with a lengthy queue to get reviewed which led to some complaints because of how long it took to get a theme listed at WordPress.org..
In late March WP Tavern reported that WordPress 4.9.5 would also bring a more aggressive prompt to get people to try the plugin version of the Gutenberg editor..
Because the GDPR is about to go into effect next month we saw a bunch of great posts about how the GDPR will affect WordPress sites..
Jetpack 6.0 also added some new features to make itself GDPR compliant which helps to paint a picture of how plugin developers themselves will have to change to stay compliant..
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