WordPress.org plugin directory just reached its 4,000th plugin! I declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note. (Or Paypal!) ¶
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Dave Zatz | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:07 pm |
All the more reason for a tighter framework that somehow limits rogue or poorly coded plugins from impacting WordPress, the db, or the server. An early build of Disqus 2.0 duplicated every comment in my database, for example.And that was unintentional. I’ve had other scripts that churn and churn, spawning processes that aren’t cleaned up, etc. Wonder what someone with an agenda could accomplish. Which is why I want things like Super Cache in the plugin, so I know it’s been tested and retested by lots of folks.
Oh yeah, I LOVE and DEPEND on WordPress. So don’t take this the wrong way.
Shoot, I’d happily pay for it if you charged.
Fyre Vortex | January 31st, 2009 @ 1:33 am |
I wouldn’t pay if it was mandatory but would donate happily to Wordpress and it’s developers (Plugins, themes, coders, designers, …).
Great job!
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Matt Martz | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:23 pm |
I’m all about receiving donations via paypal. Someone give me some plugin love!
Miroslav Glavic | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:27 pm |
Sweet but playing devil’s advocate.
How many of those plugins are compatible with 2.7/2.6.5/2.5? I was using 2.7’s new ADD NEW option for plugin and one plugin was tested with something as old as 2.2………….so is that plugin really count?
Good work anyways on the achievement.
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Roy Tanck | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:45 pm |
I guess I started early: http://www.roytanck.com/2009/01/14/which-wordpress-plugin-should-i-donate-to/
However, I do hope that not every user of WP-Cumulus finds my contact form…
marc | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:46 pm |
I’ll do that Matt, good idea!
Webmasterish | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm |
Love the idea of “Thank a Plugin Developer Day”, and it happens that I was just doing that today, I added credits to all the plugins developer on the about page – http://singlefunction.com/about/ of my first WordPress site.
Thumbs up to WordPress and all the developers in this wonderful community!
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WPCult | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:50 pm |
I would have to say that alot of Plugin developers will be very happy from this post!!
Keith | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:50 pm |
Yay!
Where would WordPress be without plug-ins? I wonder…
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Keith
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wolkanca | January 28th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm |
Enjoy 4,000 Plugins wordpress…
Trevor Turk | January 28th, 2009 @ 1:08 pm |
Awesome! Thanks to the WordPress core folks for creating such a flexible and powerful plugin system for all of us!
Dave Chase | January 28th, 2009 @ 1:21 pm |
Thank you plugin authors! You make our blogs go!
redwall_hp | January 28th, 2009 @ 1:26 pm |
I am a plugin developer. (Creator of WP125, GoCodes, and Favorites Menu Manager.) Thank you for encouraging donations.
Fredelig | January 28th, 2009 @ 1:31 pm |
Wow. A big thank you goes to everyone who share their time and knowledge to allow us all to twist and tweak this great software… Just the way we want it.
Nathan Rice | January 28th, 2009 @ 2:07 pm |
Just sent donations to the developers of the 2 most useful plugins I use:
YARPP (Yet another Related Posts Plugin)
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Paying it forward (or back).
Stu Andrews | January 28th, 2009 @ 2:24 pm |
Nice! Kudos to you and the Wordpress team Matt. Plus all the devs out there
Derek | January 28th, 2009 @ 2:40 pm |
This was a good prompt to install a contact form plugin create a contact page. Done and done. I await your praise.
mbak maya | January 28th, 2009 @ 4:02 pm |
Wow, it’s amazing. That why I love about WP. Tks Matt.
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Tom B. | January 28th, 2009 @ 4:58 pm |
Thank you developers, I have been enjoying playing with your products.
usman | January 28th, 2009 @ 6:17 pm |
Donated $20 to 2 Developers
Aw Guo | January 28th, 2009 @ 8:04 pm |
Ecosystem of WordPress is really very great and healthy!
En Soph | January 29th, 2009 @ 7:23 am |
Thank you very much! Great plugin author and company.
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Christine | January 29th, 2009 @ 8:44 am |
Completely agree, wordpress is so much more fantastic thanks to all the hard working developers who make the plugins. You should start a monthly donate to your developer drive!
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Rian Xavier | January 29th, 2009 @ 6:26 pm |
Waw. Big thanks to authors.
Roya | January 31st, 2009 @ 11:47 am |
- More than 4000 downloads
- 5 votes
- 0 encouragement message
In fact, I’m a little disappointed because of the small number of votes (fortunatelly voting is free of charge). Indifference is the worst thing.
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Jag (SEO) Follow | March 2nd, 2009 @ 1:18 pm |
This is really a great job, hats off to plugin developers
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