WordPress Station

while on the topic of plugins particularly, I’d like to take a minute to suggest to users to really think about making donations to authors who provide the ability to do so. Though WP can be downloaded for free, and almost all plugins are freely available, it would hurt to if everyone who downloaded a plugin once donated a dollar, it would make a significant difference to the authors, and I’m sure would spurn quicker development, or user suggested features incorporated at a quicker rate. If not for every download, at least for ones that you’ve consistently relied on. (Especially spam plugins).

And this is not relegate to just plugin authors. Theme authors should be thought about as well. A lot of time and energy is spent on some of the themes, so giving back some of that in the form of a donation would be nice.

This particularly could be said about blogs that create revenue. Andy Beardrecently solicited suggestions for who to make donations to, as he is pledging to donate 50% of all revenue from doing paid reviews. More of this should be happening. Well done Andy.

So the next time you download a killer plugin, consider sending a paypal donation. Any amount will be appreciated, and know that it is one more way to keep the WordPress community strong.

For the record, I have donated to several plugin authors, and as this is will be the first month that WP Station has earned any amount of revenue outside of covering hosting costs, I will explore some of the other plugins I use on this and other sites I maintain.