Somewhere in the middle of county meetings, FOIA spreadsheets, public comments, a pre-live stream for snow, “snowcrete” that can support my weight, my first live-stream at church on my own, a community phone private exchange project, dashboards, a catalog of modern miracles, redistricting debates, and ceiling drywall tape analysis… I missed an email.

On February 1st, my WordPress plugin Dreamy Tags was approved for the official WordPress Plugin Directory.

I just got around to publishing it.

That’s the kind of sentence that perfectly captures my current life rhythm.

The Surreal Part

After committing everything properly to WordPress.org’s SVN repository using SmartSVN — trunk, tags, assets, version alignment, readme formatting — I did what any developer does:

I searched for it.

And there it was.

In the official directory.

With the correct icon.

With the correct name.

Publicly visible.

Proof of existence.

I even took a screenshot.

Then I clicked it.

“We can’t find this plugin!”

Approved.
Indexed.
Visible.
Not found.

It feels oddly symbolic.

When Systems Lag Reality

Technically speaking, this is likely just propagation delay.

WordPress.org builds plugin pages from trunk/readme.txt and tagged releases. Search indexing can appear before the actual slug page finishes provisioning. Infrastructure eventually catches up.

But emotionally?

There’s something poetic about shipping something into the world and having it exist… but not quite exist.

It’s in the registry.
It’s acknowledged.
It’s real.
But the page 404s.

What Dreamy Tags Is

Dreamy Tags is something I built for myself first.

When you maintain a long-running, chronological archive of your work and thinking, traditional search breaks down. Categories flatten nuance. Tags become chaotic. Relationships disappear.

Dreamy Tags adds structure to meaning.

It lets you express contextual relationships between content — not just labels, but connected ideas. It’s the kind of tool you build when you live inside systems and timelines.

And apparently, inside SVN repositories.

Timing Is Funny

The plugin was approved on February 1.

Between then and now:

• I’ve been building public financial dashboards.
• Reviewing general ledger data.
• Writing about governance and transparency.
• Speaking at meetings.
• Debugging both human systems and software systems.

And somewhere in that swirl, an email sat quietly waiting.

Now it’s live.
Sort of.

The Screenshot That Proves It Exists

There it is.

Official.
Recognized.
Indexed.

Click it… and it vanishes.

The Broader Reflection

There’s something oddly fitting about this moment.

So much of what I’ve been doing lately involves:

• Making hidden data visible
• Surfacing structure from noise
• Aligning version numbers with reality
• Watching systems lag behind truth

And now the WordPress plugin directory is doing its own little version of that dance.

The infrastructure will catch up.

It always does.

A Quiet Win

Regardless of propagation quirks, this is a milestone.

Dreamy Tags exists in the official WordPress ecosystem.

It’s something I built.
It passed review.
It’s published.

Even if it’s temporarily Schrödinger’s Plugin.

If you check the page and it loads correctly, let me know. That’ll be the moment the system catches up to the commit.