For the third year in a row, I donated a little something to the Wikimedia Foundation as my way of saying thanks for developing Wikipedia which I frequently link and cite in these blog posts.
I also donated small micro-payments to an assortment of WordPress plugin developers who enable this blog to be seen by all and increase our sociability. Those developers who made it easy for me to find their donation button or page received my holiday cheer.
This year’s recipients include:
Ajith Prasad Edassery – for Contact Commenters, which is how I might email a bulk of commentators at once.
Andy Bailey – for CommentLuv, which lets people see your latest blog posts; and for GASP, the new competition to Akismet.
Arne Brachhold – for Google XML Sitemaps, which creates a Google-friendly sitemap for robots to read.
Brave New Code – for WPTouch, which creates a mobile-friendly layout of this blog.
Joost de Valk – for RSS Footer, a way for me to attach an electronic signature to every blog post of mine wherever RSS carries it.
Mark Jaquith – for Subscribe to Comments, allowing you to receive emailed notifications of people replying to your comment.
Matt Lloyd – for Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, which creates a human-friendly sitemap to read.
Michael Woehrer – for Maintenance Mode, preventing straying eyes from viewing this blog while it’s amid changes.
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine – for Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, which powers the links you sometimes see at the bottom of every post.
Takayuki Miyoshi – for Contact Form 7, enabling you to email me without opening your email program.
Please visit their plugin pages if inspired. Thanks!
ContactForm is invaluable to me, it’s always incredibly annoying trying to contact someone on their blog only to have to go through the whole process of waiting for MS Office to open up to then send them an email so that’s a nice plugin. Congrats on donating and keeping those great developers going and innovating in 2011!
I just wanted to say a big thanks for donating, it really fills me with joy!
have a happy holiday season and I hope karma brings you something nice.
Scary how many of those plugins I use Ari.
Bravo you for donating!
“Matt Lloyd – for Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, which creates a human-friendly sitemap to read.” – Where is this sitemap????
Good question, Christopher. For an unknown reason, the content at http://ariwriter.com/sitemap.xml is overriding http://ariwriter.com/sitemap. Until that conflict is determined, Matt’s sitemap is not being seen. I can’t figure it out.
Now you have donated to him, I would ping him a message asking why it isn’t working. I am sure your donation will have helped 🙂
I think it is great that you donate to this foundation seeing that it is one of the most helpful and massive information resources every created. I may start donating a small portion of my site earnings towards this cause. They are doing good stuff at wikipedia.
Kudos to you for continuing with your donations to these developers, Ari. You are a rarity, I believe. I hope you will serve as an inspiration for other people to do the same.
– Wes –
While I avoid linking to Wikipedia – preferring instead to link to the source who creates the content they compile, I do applaud you for supporting the plugins you recommend.
Who we choose to support is a strong recommendation of their work. I will share this post (even though it is older now) so that other bloggers will know which plugins you find most valuable.
Ooh! Interesting idea. I do use a percentage of my site proceeds to donate, but never thought about a more technical recipient. Paint.net would be on my list for sure. Thanks for the idea.
I want to donate to GASP because it solved my irritating problems with Akismet.