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There are so many plugins out there. Whose plugins can we always trust?
Please share a list of completely reliable plugin authors, along with links to their plugins pages.
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Alex King
Mark Jaquith
Otto
Stephen Rider
Justin Tadlock
Joost “Yoast” de Valk
scribu
Automattic
Proverbial from the horse’s mouth. 🙂
Alex M (Viper007Bond) (no.1 in terms of number)
hakre
Alex King
Not directly answering the question, but I’ve set up a Google Custom Search Engine just to find reliable answers to my WP questions, using most of these authors as the source sources. I add more as I find someone reliable and knowledgeable.
Check it out here: WordPress Developers Custom Search Engine
Ones that I have on it that are missing from this list are:
Andrew Nacin
Vladimir Prelovac
Joseph Scott
Denis de Bernardy