Brent Toderash’s Post  ## Metadata - Author: [[Brent Toderash]] - Full Title: Brent Toderash’s Post - Category: #articles - Summary: I realized recently that the way I've stumbled across interesting and useful WordPress plugins has changed fairly drastically - though gradually enough that I didn't notice it happening. Where before I might have started a search in the official WordPress repository or seen someone link to it on social media or elsewhere online, that's no longer the case. The main place I find interesting new plugins now is on GitHub, and my default search tool is my browser address bar's access to a standard search engine. I'm thinking it's been this way for maybe three years now. Has anyone else noticed this? This is an indicator of a fractured plugin ecosystem where the fractures are growing. Plugins come from the official WordPress repo, but increasingly also from GitHub and a plethora of vendor sites. Rather than fight this decentralization, it's better to encourage it, and add federation so that the sources can all be indexed together to be searchable from right within your WordPress admin panel. Sometimes you don't notice things like how acutely we've needed Federated And Independent Repositories - FAIR - until the solution presents itself. https://fair.pm - URL: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brenttoderash_home-fair-activity-7387476718502076416-5EsR/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAElR7wBIjgFR6R_Z62yNb0nKbwxGr_GlCQ [Brent Toderash](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brenttoderash?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name) Thinker, Strategist, Technologist, Open Source Advocate I realized recently that the way I've stumbled across interesting and useful WordPress plugins has changed fairly drastically - though gradually enough that I didn't notice it happening. Where before I might have started a search in the official WordPress repository or seen someone link to it on social media or elsewhere online, that's no longer the case. The main place I find interesting new plugins now is on GitHub, and my default search tool is my browser address bar's access to a standard search engine. I'm thinking it's been this way for maybe three years now. Has anyone else noticed this? This is an indicator of a fractured plugin ecosystem where the fractures are growing. Plugins come from the official WordPress repo, but increasingly also from GitHub and a plethora of vendor sites. Rather than fight this decentralization, it's better to encourage it, and add federation so that the sources can all be indexed together to be searchable from right within your WordPress admin panel. Sometimes you don't notice things like how acutely we've needed Federated And Independent Repositories - FAIR - until the solution presents itself. [https://fair.pm](https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffair%2Epm&urlhash=pCOl&trk=public_post-text) [ Home - FAIR https://fair.pm](https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffair%2Epm%2F&urlhash=uftG&trk=public_post_feed-article-content), Brent Toderash’s Post, Brent Toderash, 01k8r84gxd1q7swygfqgds4v08.