[wp-hackers] Offical Plugins, repository, and extending WordPress

[Matt Mullenweg]

Sorry I couldn't come to this discussion earlier, but it wouldn't have 
hurt people to search a little since most/all of this has been discussed 
before.

On wordpress.org there will be an official repository of "approved" 
plugins and styles. I began work on this page a while ago and showed some 
of you but I haven't really done much with it since then. Originally Alex 
was going to maintain this part of the site:

http://wordpress.org/extend/ (obviously it doesn't work)

This will only contain plugins and styles that have the WP stamp of 
approval, meaning they comply to all the developer guidelines, use best 
practices, are web standards compliant, etc etc. The code will live on 
wp.org and feature prominent links to the authors.

That page will also link to the unofficial repository, a better gardened 
wiki page, with a standard disclaimer that we can't guarantee these 
plugins won't send out porn spam.

Same with the styles, except we just make sure they're high-quality styles 
that work reasonably well cross-platform and are always up to date with WP 
structure.

There are some structure things that need to go in place before this 
happens, notably that I need to finish moving wp.org to the CMS system 
I've been working on. This will allow the site to work like an 
authenticated wiki, with different users having access to different parts 
of the site, while still maintaining the current "real website" look.

-- 
Matt Mullenweg
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