Sad, sad news. Â Alex King, the founder of Crowd Favorite and a major contributor to WordPress and its ecosystem, has passed away. Â I’ve blogged earlier about him being diagnosed with cancer.
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Alex King Rememberances
I’ve just discovered some sad sad news.  Alex King, one of the bigger people in the WordPress community for years, is fighting a stage 4 cancer battle.  Alex is well known for a few things, most notably for his design of the Share icon, his contributions to WordPress core, and his work as a founder of Crowd Favorite.
I’ve never met Alex or spoke to him directly, but his work is a constant inspiration. Â From the early days, when I was promoting WordPress as a flexible platform for web application development, I used his work for powerful examples. Â I’ve also built projects using Carrington Core framework. Â This blog ran both Carrington Blog and FavePersonal themes for quite some time. Â I’ve used Capsule for a while to manage my code snippets and project notes, and I’m sure I’ll use it again. Â I’ve used (and still using) quite a few plugins that he was involved with – Social, Twitter Tools, Old Post Alert, Delink Comment Author, and others. Â I’ve been an occasional reader of his blog. Â And, of course, like anyone else using WordPress, I’ve benefited from his work.
The time has come to return a favor. Â Alex is compiling some information about his work and career for his 6 year old daughter to learn more about him. Â So if you met Alex, communicated with him, or benefited from his work – take a couple of minutes to share your experience. Â He well deserves that.
To Alex: thank you for all your work. Â It’s inspirational and educational. Â Stay strong!