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Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress

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Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress

Matt Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic and co-creator of WordPress, one of the largest open-source projects in the world, and a publishing platform that enables as much as 35 percent of the web. In this conversation, he discusses the beginnings of WordPress, the growing importance of open source in the age of cloud, the lessons he has learned as a…

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  1. How Did WordPress Start at 3:00

    Matt and an another developer who were contributing to the original open source project got together on an online forum and decided to work on it under the… Full answer

  2. How Did Matt Mullenweg Get His Initial WordPress Users at 3:49

    Matt used to read a lot of blogs, and seeing a lot of spam on those blogs, he would reach out to the owners and proposed to help them switch over to WordPress… Full answer

  3. How Are Blogs Different From Social Networks at 6:45

    Blogs is a space where the blog owners invite a community for a conversation, and the conversations that happens in the comments is the key to making blog's… Full answer

  4. How Does WordPress Handle Moderation at 8:29

    By default, WordPress comments require moderation the first time that someone leaves a new comment; after that, they go right through. Full answer

  5. What Catalyzed Matts Desire to Actually Start Writing WordPress in PHP at 10:55

    At the time, Matt was programming mostly in Pearl, a little bit in Python, but when he came across how PHP worked, he really wanted to dive in more. Full answer

  6. Do You Know Wordpress at 14:19

    Today it powers 30% of all websites in the world, and it is easy to think think that Matt, the founder, had it all figured out in the early day. Full answer

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