{"id":243,"date":"2009-01-29T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-04-16T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T10:18:00","slug":"wordpress-plugin-developer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/wordpress-plugin-developer-day\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugin Developer Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\">Matt<\/a> has announced today (28th January 2009, 29th in my timezone) to be <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/01\/thank-a-plugin-developer-day\/\">WordPress Plugin Developer Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWordPress by itself is very simple &#8211; what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone\u2019s WordPress 2.7 or above.)<\/p>\n<p>I declare January 28th our official &#8220;Thank a Plugin Developer&#8221; day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author\u2019s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note thanking them. (Or Paypal!) Look for the links in the plugin directory to &#8220;author homepage&#8221; and also to donate directly if they\u2019ve specified a Paypal address.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who has ever written a plugin for WordPress, and here\u2019s to the next four thousand.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donations I received today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John Kolbert &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkolbert.com\/\">http:\/\/www.johnkolbert.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WP Candy Team &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wpcandy.com\/\">http:\/\/wpcandy.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt has announced today (28th January 2009, 29th in my timezone) to be WordPress Plugin Developer Day. WordPress by itself is very simple &#8211; what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/wordpress-plugin-developer-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress Plugin Developer Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-donations"],"views":22639,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}