11 Epic WordPress Plugin Developers to Follow on Twitter

Just going to cut the crap and get straight into the meat of this list. Huge thanks to Andy Bailey from Commentluv for putting together this awesome Twitter List of some of the most talented WordPress Plugin Developers currently roaming this planet.

Several more have been added since this was first posted.

11 Epic WordPress Plugin Developers to Follow on Twitter

Andy Bailey
Is known for the blog fiddyp.co.uk and as creator of the CommentLuv plugin and site and the Wp-twitip-id plugin. A serial twitter user and somewhere to go for geeky advice.
http://www.commentluv.com
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk
TWITTER @commentluv

Vladimir Prelovac
Is a prolific plugin creator responsible for great creations like Plugin Central which allows you (among other things) to move plugins from one blog to another and insights which helps you include links, news and images with your posts using AJAX. He recently published a book with @packtpub entitled “Wordpress plugin development”.

http://www.prelovac.com

TWITTER @vprelovac

Ron and Andrea
Are a team comprising of a designer and a programmer and are well known for the work and tutorials they do for Wordpress Mu. They take on projects large and small for WPMU installs.

http://www.ronandandrea.com/

TWITTER @andrea_r

Alex King
Known for his Twitter tools plugin, he creates custom applications and CMS sites using Wordpress. He will be speaking at the Denver Wordcamp on Feb 28 2009.
http://alexking.org/
TWITTER @alexkingorg

Janis Elsts
Made the popular plugin One click plugin updater to take the pain out of installing and upgrading Wordpress plugins as well as a large number of other custom wordpress additions.

http://w-shadow.com

TWITTER @white_shadow

Dean Lee
A Chinese university professor responsible for Deans permalinks migration, a plugin to allow you to change your wordpress permalinks when you’ve already published posts using another permalink style.
http://www.deanlee.cn
TWITTER @deanlee

Mark Jaquith
Made the Subscribe to comments plugin is one of the lead developers of Wordpress.

http://markjaquith.com/

TWITTER @markjaquith

Patrick Altoft
Made the Crawl rate tracker plugin and is a full time SEO consultant who has published articles mentioned at the BBC, The times, Techcrunch and more.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/

TWITTER @patrickaltoft

Ronald Huereca
Wrote the WP ajax edit comments plugin and runs the Reader Appreciation project website

http://www.raproject.com/

TWITTER @ronalfy

Ronald Heft
Was the developer behind Goole analyticator, a simple way to add google analytics to your theme without the need to edit it.

http://cavemonkey50.com/

TWITTER @ronaldheft

Joost de Valk
He is a great WP plugin developer. Online Marketeer, Blogger, Speaker, WordPress Guru, SEO, Web analytics, Social Media Maven, CSS, Apple and founder of yoast.com and SocialMediaBlog.nl

http://yoast.com

TWITTER @jdevalk

And finally…

Ofcourse, it would be bad form for me not to ask you to follow me, so please follow me as well. I always have lots of cool stuff going on in Twitter land: @imjustcreative

Article Posted On: February 25, 2009 at 10.58 pm
Written By Graham Smith - UK Freelance Logo Designer
In Categories: Social Media

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