A catalog with plugins has become available.

Matt Mullenweg , the founder of WordPress, published a news blog for developers yesterday that a plug-in catalog has now become available. Here is its content:

One of the great features of WordPress is the huge amount of good plugins. If we included all these plugins into the standard WordPress distribution, we would get a very heavy product. Thanks to a well-designed API, people make almost any WP plugins you can imagine.

This, of course, is good, but all this variety of plugins is useless, when there is no place where you can find plugins. Although we provided developers with the wp-plugins.org site, it did not provide a user interface for the plug-ins hosted there.

Enough! In our constantly expanding section "extensions" updated directory with plug-ins. Now you can view, download, vote and leave comments to all your favorite plugins. I recommend you go there and check everything yourself.

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For users, this update means that they now have a place where they can find and download any plugin for WP, as well as get an idea of ​​the quality and compatibility of plug-ins.

The developers also received a million users, free SVN hosting for plug-ins (distributed under the GPL license), statistics on downloading their plug-ins, the ability to post links to their website, as well as the placement of the Donate button.