After a great conversation in the WP Tavern, I just couldn’t stop myself from coming up with ways to know if you’re a WordPress addict…
- …you can’t name the number of WordPress sites you have without looking it up.
- …you listen to WordPress Weekly rather than going out on Friday night.
- …you visit a website and look at its source code to see if it’s WordPress.
- …you time how long it takes to install/upgrade WordPress, and celebrate when you break your own record.
- …you refresh your blog stats A LOT over and over.
- …you get up in the middle of the night to check them.
- …the first thing you do each day is check to see if a new WordPress update has been released.
- …you see a problem in daily life and wonder if there is a plugin to solve it.
- …you don’t like newspapers because you can’t leave comments.
- …you refuse to go on any vacation where there’s no electricity, phone lines, or hotspots.
- …you finally take that vacation, but only after buying a data-enabled cell-phone plan and a wi-fi card.
- …you compare your bank’s website to the wp-admin and tell them to take ideas from it.
- …you see a great website you like, and wonder what plugins they’re using.
- …the WordPress shirt in your closet is a great source of pride.
- …you’ve cried while using the WYSIWYG editor.
- …you spend more time on your girlfriend’s WordPress site than on your girlfriend.
- …you worship Matt Mullenweg.
- …as soon as you saw the new government/Obama/Change sites, you checked to see if they were using WordPress.
- …when writing a query for a non-WordPress project, you accidently try to use the $wpdb class.
- …you can name 10 active tickets in Trac off the top of your head… extra points if you’ve debated them.
- …Firefox says your most visited sites are WordPress.org, Weblog Tools Collection, Ma.tt, Lorelle on WordPress, WP Tavern, any of the WordPress theme developers, and any twitter accounts for WordPress developers.
- …you signed up for the WP Tavern forum before it was remotely ready to be officially launched.
- …you can name three core WordPress developers.
- …Google registers hundreds, if not thousands, of 301/302 redirects for your site.
- …your computer desktop background has WordPress logo art
- …you had never heard of .htaccess, Trac, or SVN until you started using WordPress
- …when someone doesn’t print WordPress correctly, you are personally offended.
- …you have ever woken up in the middle of the night and started blogging about the dream you just had.
- …you see a good looking girl and wonder if she has a blog.
- …your inbox has more emails from various WordPress installations than actual people.
- …you rewrite some of the more inefficient code in plugins you use, just for fun.
- …you get mad when someone says they’re writing a new blog (rather than blog post).
- …you’ve had headed arguments about the GPL as it relates to WordPress, and its plugins and themes.
- …you’ve ever written a useless plugin just for the fun of it.
- …you stay up until 3am participating in the WP Weekly after show.
- …the biggest social event of the year you’ve attended is WordCamp.
- …you know when Thank a Plugin Developer Day is.
- -and someone thanked you.
- …someone asks for your address and you give them your WordPress blog address.