First-party WordPress plugins are not a new idea. Here is a post about the head of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, talking about them, referring to them as canonical plugins, in 2009. And doing it again in 2022. Despite that, there still isn’t a clear indication or verification method that plugins are truly coming from WordPress. Or even consistent labeling of those plugins. You probably wouldn’t guess the plugin Two-Factor is from WordPress as it listed as being by “Plugin Contributors”:
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