{"id":2512896,"date":"2012-01-17T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/canonical-plugins\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T04:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:24:35","slug":"canonical-plugins","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/canonical-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A difficult thing about WordPress is it&#8217;s hard to rely on plugins.<br \/>\nMost are free, and there is no guarantee that the plugin that is giving you the functionality you need will still be around a year from now. <\/p>\n<p>Around 2009 Automattic floated the idea of moving the better plugins into a core-like space, where there was an implied guarantee that the plugin would be actively developed. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any idea if the concept&#8217;s been abandoned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2512896","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2512896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2512896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}