There’s an interesting post on the WordPress blog that talks about canonical plugins, a set of plugins aimed at enhancing WordPress. They are going to be a special class of plugin in that they will have teams working on them (as opposed to individuals) and will carry a certain amount of support.
It still hasn’t been decided what they will be called, there are more choices than types of tile flooring you can buy, but here are the names being floated:
Standard - Implies that these are the standard by which all other plugins should be judged, as well as the idea of them being the default plugins.
Core - Makes the close relationship to core WordPress development very clear, and has the implication of bundled plugins (even though we don’t need to actually bundle them now that the installer is right in the admin tool).
Premium – Identifies these officially-supported plugins as best-in-class and of the highest value, and could potentially disambiguate the word Premium as it is currently being used in the community (to refer to anything from commercial support to licensing terms to actual code quality).
Validated - Focuses on the fact that the code is reviewed for compatibility with core and for security.
Official – Makes it plain that these are the plugins officially endorsed by the core team as being the best at their functions.
Canonical – Maybe once people get used to it, canonical wouldn’t confuse so many people?
What do you think? If you want to have your say, cast your vote here
