Today, as you may or may not have known has been declared “Thank a Plugin Developer” day by Matt of WordPress.org. This is because the plugin directory has crossed 4000 submissions today, with the average blog employing - I’m trusting his statistics - about five plugins.

Celebration invloves hunting down the authors of your favorite plugins and thanking them in an appropriate manner - gold or gratitude. While I probably won’t be getting any thanks from the few dozen users of my StumbleUpon plugin, I plan on thanking a few people who’ve played a key role in the functionality of thousands of blogs, behind the scenes.

Hopefully others will catch on and spend a few minutes spreading the love for those who work so hard for the benefit of all of the WordPress community. Speaking of which, I hardly have much time what with schoolwork, trying to find a co-op and paying taxes on some money I earned but never received.