His Favorite WordPress Plugins

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In his ideal world, premium plugins would play a larger role and receive a bigger place in the community spotlight:

I think WordPress/Automattic should change the way it works and interacts with plugin developers and support them. We are part of what make WordPress such a great environment and we are part of the WordPress ecosystem … I am trying to say: help us and support our efforts.

As an example, Magento by AOL provides a free catalog in which every Country Email List developer can list his extensions – regardless of whether they are free or premium – and also receive feedback and support customers. This is not possible with WordPress … If there isn’t a viable model which WordPress will stand behind and push then we will not see too many great plugins.





I questioned him on his position and he responded further:

Another aspect of this issue is that many existing plugins are not written according to widely acceptable standards and are not well supported. In supporting our customers we must deal with these plugins. We usually find ourselves explaining why another plugin they have installed is causing issues because it is not written correctly. In many cases they also show JS/PHP errors.

My point is that in order to have good plugins, there must be a sustainable model that WordPress will stand behind, and even push, that will enable plugin developers to develop and support their products.