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What is the initiative?
A community-driven effort to enhance trust, security, and control within the WordPress ecosystem through a decentralized system for managing resources with the maker.json file.
Why is it needed?
To address governance, security, and transparency issues in centralized repositories, providing more control and enhanced security.
How does the maker.json file work?
It serves as a directory of trusted plugins/themes, enabling automated management with metadata, validation, and updates.
What are the key benefits?
Enhanced security, decentralized control, improved trust, simplified compliance, and community collaboration.
How will it be implemented?
Through platform plugins, validation tools, cloud solutions, and comprehensive documentation and support.
What security measures will be included?
Digital signatures, checksum verification, secure updates, and transparency/auditing.
How does this compare to using WordPress.org?
It offers more control, flexible distribution, and independence from centralized repositories.
What are the benefits of public CDN mirrors like CloudFlare and Fastly?
They improve performance, global accessibility, and redundancy, ensuring faster downloads and stability.
How does this work with GitHub?
It syncs with WordPress via API for seamless management and updates of maker.json files.
How does this support agencies and multi-client management?
It provides centralized control, flexible distribution, and consistent branding across client sites.
Is there a cost to using CDN mirrors or GitHub?
Public CDNs and GitHub repositories are free for most users.
What is the initiative?
A community-driven effort to enhance trust, security, and control within the WordPress ecosystem through a decentralized system for managing resources with the maker.json file.
This initiative is a community-driven effort to enhance trust, security, and control within the WordPress ecosystem by establishing a decentralized system for managing resources like plugins and themes. It introduces the maker.json file, a standardized, secure method for configuring and distributing trusted resources.
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