Core Plugins

In the past year or so, you may have heard of the term ‘Canonical Plugins‘ being used throughout the community. Back in early December, a poll was published that goes into more detail regarding the idea of Canonical Plugins and what to call them. The poll has since closed without making the results viewable but from what I understand, the name for these plugins going into the future will be ‘Core Plugins‘. Core plugins are community developed and encourage collaboration with multiple developers to satisfy the most popular functionality requests that would not make it into the Core of WordPress. These plugins would be developed alongside the core of WordPress to ensure compatibility, coding standards are met, secure code, etc. To highlight these plugins, a screen would be added to the plugins page in the back-end of WordPress to highlight these special plugins. Everything sounds great right? Let’s take a […]