New Tags Coming to the WordPress Plugin Repo? Users Respond With an Unanimous “Meh”
According to our small survey, 90% of users say they don’t care if a free plugin they’re getting from the directory is only a limited, “lite” version of the fully-featured PRO. Okay, I might have BuzzFeeded the stats a bit here. The exact question we asked was, “Would you not use a WordPress.org plugin, just because it has a PRO version also available?” Again, 90% said “no.”
“Wait, what is this about anyway?!”
Okay, let’s rewind to the beginning:
What’s up with the new WordPress plugin tags
The whole thing started several months ago when Matt Mullenweg encouraged the WordPress community to brainstorm some ideas on how to improve the way plugins are presented in the official repository:
In short, the main goals:
better indicate if a plugin needs an external service to work,
indicate if there’s a more feature-rich premium (or “PRO”) version of the plugin available.
In today’s WordPress ecosystem, with more than 45,000 plugins in the repo, it gets harder and harder to find the right one, and many of them just don’t live up to the expectations.
And I have to give it to Matt, what he’s
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14379/new-tags-coming-to-the-wordpress-plugin-repo-users-respond-with-an-unanimous-meh
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