Lorelle VanFossen has a worthy dedication for February:

I love WordPress Plugins. And I love WordPress Plugin authors even more.

Their jobs aren’t easy. They pull their hair out (and turn some parts gray) building their WordPress Plugins, then are assaulted by bug reports and users begging them to fix their Plugins because “we love them and we need them and can’t run our blogs without them”, all for no money nor return on their investment. Their days are spent responding to comments about the Plugin, often to users who can’t follow the most basic instructions, and chasing down reports of problems in the WordPress Support Forums.

So, I’m dedicating February to WordPress Plugins and WordPress Plugin authors. I’ll be writing 30 posts about different WordPress Plugins and the art of the WordPress Plugin.

This won’t be the first time she’s blogged about plugins, at the bottom of that post there is a long list of articles she’s written about pluigns and how they can be used.  They’re all well worth a read for anyone with a WordPress blog, and the How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin, WordPress Pluggable Functions and Plugins by Nadgouda & WordPress Hooks - All of Them posts link to particularly useful reference material for plugin developers.

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