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Happy Birthday, WordPress!

May 27, 2013 – 8:15 am

Today is the 10th Anniversary of that famous moment when Matt Mullenweg reached out to the world, and Mike Little replied, and WordPress was born. A blog post that changed the world. Happy Birthday, WordPress! I’m off to celebrate with the Portland WordPress Meetup Group of Oregon. Cake? Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe by Email Copyright […]

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Happy Birthday and Anniversary, Matt Mullenweg

January 9, 2013 – 6:20 am

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary, Matt Mullenweg. Well, happy early birthday. Matt’s birthday is January 11. Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the brains behind WordPress.com and Automattic, and I’m honored to call him friend. He also changed my life completely, in more ways than I can count.

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments (14)

WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal

November 1, 2012 – 10:37 am

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, WordPress.com, the self-hosted version of WordPress, was featured today on the Wall Street Journal Business talking about the fact that WordPress now supports 14% of all websites in the world, approximately 1 in 6 globally. Matt talked about the future of WordPress and made these three points. WordPress as a CMS: […]

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Happy Birthday, Matt Mullenweg

January 11, 2012 – 7:45 pm

As I prepared my annual public “Happy Birthday, Matt” post for Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (with a lot of other amazing people), I spotted the birthday greeting by Jane Wells of the WordPress Foundation. She thanks Matt for all the ways her life has been changed since meeting him, a perfect way to say […]

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