[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11538: Unbundle Hello Dolly

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#11538: Unbundle Hello Dolly
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 Reporter:  caesarsgrunt  |       Owner:  westi
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0  
Component:  Plugins       |     Version:  3.0  
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:       
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Comment(by brantgurga):

 I support both thoughts I'm seeing. There is certainly a place for solid,
 clear, easily understood examples of plugins that are in Wordpress by
 default to demonstrate how a plugin is written and provide a basis for
 creating new plugins.
 I know I am in the same boat as ramiy though. I delete the Hello Dolly
 plugin after every installation. And code that is there, even if it's not
 an activated plugin, is a potential target for finding and exploiting
 vulnerabilities.
 To best address this, we need a measure of how often Hello Dolly and, to
 be fair, the Akismet plugin is actually activated.

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