Wriging

I've only really made one freely distributed theme but I pulled it with 2.0 and haven't had time to make sure everything is updated for the latest builds.

I leave their link in the footer of my theme. That's it, I have no qualification's to do anything else.

Oh yeah got a wordpress forum moderator kicked out some time back because he was a pig. It was the least I could do.

@cooper: Really, who?

eh long story.

I didn't get him kicked out purposefully. I had posted a question on the forums as I am liable to do, as at the time I was totally lost in the self hosted hell. I then got an email from one of the moderators giving me his name and asking me to exchange links with him yada yada yada.

It is no big deal you can delete emails like that or ignore them.

I did look at his site...it was a disgusting peace of crap in which the post at the time contained pictures of women taken off various social sites, and him calling them fuckable or not fuckable and writing a lot of other vile nonsense.

I wrote a very long post about it on my blog and they got rid of him.

The funny thing was the wordpress community did not seem very concerned about the content he was writing, they were concerned that he emailed someone and that is what the discussion was among all those moderator types. " How could he damage our rep by contacting someone", not how could he post such vile content.

The original email from someone was hardly an issue, emails are easily deleted and or ignored. beside the guy was an ignorant buffoon and I just wanted him to take those pictures and comments off his site. How awful to have your picture posted on someone's site while they call you fat, ugly, dog face whatever.

His name was vindictive bastard - kind of figures.

I leave their link in my theme's footer..that is about it.

I created a theme last year. If someone on a forum asks for a cms/blog solution and WordPress fits their needs, I'll mention it.

There's really nothing exciting about WordPress anymore.

I spread the word :)
Seriously, I always help friends to start a blog or figure out some plugins they need. If I can help, why shouldn't I do it?

Bought a WordPress t-shirt, writing my thesis on WordPress. What else can I do? :)

I develop WordPress Plugins and help anyone who needs it with setting up WordPress. (All for free of course) This is how I give back the community since I run a lot of my sites on WordPress.

I leave link at the bottom and from time to time suggest feedback or improvements to plug-ins that I use. Other than that, I'm a user. :(

I used to answer questions all the time on the forums, just haven't had time lately. :)

I get other people hooked on it by installing it for them and setting them up with sweet themes and the like.

I wish I had the skills the contribute in other ways.

I have a blog about blogging so I try to help other bloggers out and always try to answer their questions. I also answer questions about Wordpress and blogging on forums such as Digital Point from time to time.

I do not really have the time to help contribute back, especially with all the other things going on in life. Unfortunate, but a fact of life.

Maybe at some point in the future I will be able to contribute time, but for now it is virtually impossible.

Link in footer. It's about all I can do.

I've done a number of theme edits and customizations. I've installed a couple blogs for people and I always recommend it to people when they ask for a good blogging platform.

Other than that, I suppose I don't really contribute much.