Dogfooding WordPress plugins

Dogfooding or ‘eating one’s own dog food’ is a term used for a company that is confident in it’s own product (if it was a dog food they would feed their own dog with it).

I thought it is a rather good term and describes why I started writing WordPress plugins. I needed a certain functionality and it was not going to be available until I personally made it - and that is how most of my plugins came to life.

Theme Test Drive - I remember quite clearly as it was my first plugin - came to life at the very beginning of my blogging while I was desperately trying out numerous WordPress themes, just like you were I am sure. There was no plugin that allowed me to completely replace the theme for testing purposes, so I had to create a plugin I still happily use today (it was of course upgraded and expanded in functionality over the time).

Every plugin I made came as a mirror of my own necessity and I still use all of them on my blog (where applicable, some were done for specific projects). Which means I still stand for every one of them - I eat my own dog food. I think there is no better marketing for a plugin developer.

And generally as such, dogfooding is a great concept in life - you should always stand for what you do.