Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers for 2008

Written by Ade Magnaye in WordPress News 7 Comments

As the year ends, it’s time to see which plugin developers created the most sought-after WordPress plugins for 2008. Fortunately, W-Shadow.com has compiled a list of the top WordPress plugin developers using rankings from the number of downloads from the wordpress.org plugin directory.

And here are the top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers for 2008:

Michael Torbert
961 306 downloads. Co-author of All In One SEO Pack (originally created by Uberdose).
Matt Mullenweg
921 827 downloads. Everybody knows Matt, the main WP dev and author of Akismet.
Lester â€˜GaMerZâ€™ Chan
775 220 downloads. Author of WP-Polls and other cool plugins.
Arne Brachhold
628 350 downloads. Author of Google XML Sitemaps, etc.
Andy Skelton
449 345 downloads. Author of WordPress.com Stats. Another dedicated hacker.
Alex Rabe
429 705 downloads. Author of NextGEN Gallery, etc.
Oliver Seidel
361 918 downloads. Author of cforms II.
Joost de Valk
328 036 downloads. Author of Sociable, Google Analytics for WP and numerous other tools.
Donncha O Caoimh
246 752 downloads. Author of WP Super Cache and other assorted plugins.
Vladimir Prelovac
244 963 downloads. Author of Smart YouTube, various SEO plugins, and more.

Special Mentions

Most plugins by a single author : Viper007Bond has 25 plugins hosted on wordpress.org.
Highest version number : cforms II version 9.4 by Oliver Seidel. This plugin also has the highest number of user ratings – 419 votes.
Longest plugin name : Sliding Post – Slides latest posts with Carousel effect (55 characters) by dasinfomedia
Shortest plugin name : mu by Mark Bockenstedt. Thatâ€™s not WordPress MU – â€œmuâ€ is an obscure microblog updater plugin.

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7 comments on “Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers for 2008”

Shevonne on 12/29/2008 at 2:40 pm said:

I’m a fan of WP Stats, cformsII, and SEO Pack. Thanks for posting. Will have to check out the other ones.

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Fu4ny on 12/31/2008 at 5:43 am said:

Fu4ny and Funnnny are the same. Just a mistake by WordPress plugin repo’s name listing

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evdeneve on 12/31/2008 at 5:57 am said:

goood

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mrilham on 1/12/2009 at 12:20 am said:

thank you. nice info

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Anwalt on 1/26/2009 at 3:55 pm said:

All In One SEO Pack and WP Super Cache are definitly “must haves”.

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Atsuko on 4/27/2009 at 1:14 am said:

Nice data ^^ love it… thanks, I check them out

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nakliyat on 10/6/2011 at 5:06 am said:

sÄ± nice thanks for this nice blog

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