Not So Thankless After All

Back in early July, I asked the question is WordPress a thankless community? Not surprisingly, this post struck a chord with both developers and end users. The point of the article was to raise awareness that there are a number of people who give to the WordPress community and it seemed as though a large portion of the community was not stopping to at least say thank you for the contributions. In the article, I present a few different methods for showing appreciation or for giving back but too many people in the comments focused on the monetary aspect of the situation which is not what I had in mind. In this post, I’m going to highlight a number of different ideas, comments, and blog posts that came out of the discussion. First, we have Matt Mullenweg who shares his thoughts on the idea that WordPress is a thankless community. […]