{"id":18989575,"date":"2026-08-10T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/process-for-devs-to-contribute\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:11:17","slug":"process-for-devs-to-contribute","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/process-for-devs-to-contribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Process for devs to contribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, I&#8217;m not sure I understand the process you want contributors to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the long description of your plugin here, you send potential contributors to this <a href=\"https:\/\/contactform7.com\/contributing\/\">page on your website<\/a> which in turn has links to your GitHub repo and coding standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to contribute a feature, so when you closed my pull request with the labels to post it to the support forum or open an issue, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. Should I open an issue that describes my interest for wanting the feature <em>and then<\/em> submit the code that &#8220;fixes&#8221; it? I&#8217;m just confused and would like some clarification on what I should do to follow your preferred process in this case. Even if you&#8217;re not interested and it ends up not getting added, I want to make sure I&#8217;m <em>asking<\/em> correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18989575","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18989575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18989575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18989575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}