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The plugins listed here are proposed for a future version of WordPress. They are under active development.
You can try them out, provide feedback, or join one of the development teams.

WordPress REST API (Version 2)

Access your site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API. (Version 2)

By: Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle.

(10)
Last Updated: 1 day ago
3,000+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.4

Two-Factor

A feature plugin for core to provide Two-Factor Authentication.

By: George Stephanis, Derek Herman, Steven Word, Daisuke Takahashi, and others.

(0)
Last Updated: 2 days ago
60+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.4

RICG Responsive Images

Bringing automatic default responsive images to WordPress.

By: tevko, wilto, Joe McGill, Jasper de Groot, chriscoyier, Michael McGinnis, and others.

(18)
Last Updated: 3 days ago
10,000+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.3.1

Shortcake (Shortcode UI)

Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.

By: fusionengineering, Matthew Haines-Young, Daniel Bachhuber, zebulonj, and others.

(7)
Last Updated: 1 week ago
4,000+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.4

Customizer UI Experiments

Testing ground for UI and UX changes and features proposed for the Customizer.

By: Nick Halsey, voldemortensen, and WordPress.org.

(1)
Last Updated: 3 months ago
30+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.3.1

Customize Partial Refresh

Refresh parts of a Customizer preview instead of reloading the entire page when a setting changed without transport=postMessage.

By: XWP and Weston Ruter.

(0)
Last Updated: 3 months ago
20+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.3.1

Background Image Cropper

Adds cropping to backgroud images in the Customizer, like header images have.

By: Nick Halsey and WordPress.org.

(0)
Last Updated: 4 months ago
50+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.3.1

Front-end Editor

Edit your posts on the front-end of your site.

By: Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe and WordPress.org.

(49)
Last Updated: 9 months ago
2,000+ active installs
Compatible up to: 4.3-alpha