--- title: Elevating Individuals | daily.dev description: Matt Mullenweg reflects on how the WordPress community has shifted toward over-recognizing corporate sponsors at the expense of individual contributors. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/elevating-individuals-s8glmwhji twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Elevating Individuals | daily.dev og:description: Matt Mullenweg reflects on how the WordPress community has shifted toward over-recognizing corporate sponsors at the expense of individual contributors. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/elevating-individuals-s8glmwhji og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S8gLmWHJI.png og:image:alt: Elevating Individuals og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Elevating Individuals **[Make WordPress Core](https://daily.dev/sources/wordpresscore)** · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Matt Mullenweg reflects on how the WordPress community has shifted toward over-recognizing corporate sponsors at the expense of individual contributors. He calls for a return to celebrating personal contributions, critiques badge designs that prominently display employer names over personal identity, and challenges the community to measure actual impact rather than hours pledged. He also questions how consensus-driven processes and emphasis on participation may have slowed progress, referencing The Mythical Man-Month as a long-known warning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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