With people out there claiming to be “One of the Three Most Important People in WordPress” that don’t contribute to core, answer support questions or speak at WordCamps, I thought I would give you my list of the Ten most important people in WordPress. Behold (in no particular order, other then the first one being the clear #1):
- You, the user
- Without the people who have downloaded WordPress 3.0 over 8 million times since it’s release, the software I love is nothing
- Matt Mullenweg
- Out esteemed Head of Bug Creation has been a driving force behind giving millions of people the right to publish their thoughts
- Ryan Boren
- If I ran SVN Blame against WordPress, odds are close to half the lines would have rboren attached to them and for good reason.
- Mark Jaquith
- Very possibly the best Freelance WordPress Consultant. Many core features such as Post Thumbnails and Canonical URLs are because of Mark.
- Peter Westwood
- Peter is world class developer who often leads the weekly developer chat and is on the forefront of educating and assisting developers
- Jane Wells
- Do you think WordPress is usable? The only thing you need to say is “Thanks Jane”.
- Andrew Ozz
- Do you use the Visual Editor? This is the man that makes sure that is usable in addition to patching plenty of other bugs
- Andew Nacin
- If he actually slept or did something besides code, there is a chance we never would have seen WordPress 3.0.
- Dion Hulse
- Do you enjoy installing or updating Plugins/Themes from inside WordPress? That’s just two of his great contributions
- (TIE) The hundreds of people who file bug reports, patch said bugs, Help in the Support Forums and IRC channel, and Write Documentation
- That’s right. The hundreds of people who test, patch, and help out are all important and responsible for bringing you great software
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