CMS Critic » matt mullenweg http://www.cmscritic.com CMS News, Reviews, Interviews and Articles Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Incredible Growth of WordPress http://www.cmscritic.com/the-incredible-growth-of-wordpress/ http://www.cmscritic.com/the-incredible-growth-of-wordpress/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:26:20 +0000 Mike Johnston http://www.cmscritic.com/?p=5457 WordPress is, perhaps, the most prolific Content Management System of all time and it’s always amazing to see how much it continues to grow year over year.  According to recent metrics, WordPress powers an amazing 14.7% of the top million websites in the world.

In this ‘State of the Word’ address, Matt Mullenweg talks about this, and more. It’s a very interesting watch for those who couldn’t attend WordCamp San Franciso this year:

Source: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/

]]> http://www.cmscritic.com/the-incredible-growth-of-wordpress/feed/ 0 It’s Official, WordPress has conquered the Web http://www.cmscritic.com/its-official-wordpress-has-conquered-the-web/ http://www.cmscritic.com/its-official-wordpress-has-conquered-the-web/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:08:10 +0000 Mike Johnston http://www.cmscritic.com/?p=5099 The end of June marked one of the most impressive milestones to date for the world’s most popular blog platform. WordPress is now officially powering over fifty million websites.

What an achievement for creator Matt Mullenweg and his team of developers. The adoption of the platform has been steadily increasing as blogs have grown in popularity and authority and it’s not expected to slow down anytime soon. With the recent release of their 3.2 version, WordPress continues to drive innovation on the web.

Overall, the system has matured from what was once just considered a blog platform, to a full fledged CMS capable of powering much more than just your average website.

Congratulations to the WordPress community, we look forward to many more amazing achievements in the years ahead.

]]> http://www.cmscritic.com/its-official-wordpress-has-conquered-the-web/feed/ 4 Focus on Genius: Matt Mullenweg http://www.cmscritic.com/focus-on-genius-matt-mullenweg/ http://www.cmscritic.com/focus-on-genius-matt-mullenweg/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:06:00 +0000 Mike Johnston http://cmscritic.com/?p=54 This young man is the brains and brawn behind the single most popular blogging platform on the planet: WordPress. What’s more impressive than accomplishing something this colossall? Well, how about being just 25 years old!

Let’s highlight some of Matt’s accomplishments in his 25 years on the planet:

In 2003:

  • He formed WordPress by forking some code from b2/cafelog.
  • He co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.

In 2004:

  • He formed Ping-o-Matic with Dougal Campbell.
  • Was recruited by CNET to work on WordPress for them. He dropped out of College at this point.
  • He announced bbPress, a forum software similar to WordPress in simplicity.

In 2005:

  • Left Cnet and launched Akismet.
  • WordPress.com became open to the public.
  • AutoMattic was announced.

In 2006:

  • Raised about 1.1 million for AutoMattic in funding.
  • The first WordPress conference occurred.
  • named #16 of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World
  • Acquired Gravatar.

There’s a ton more of course, such as WordPress.tv recently being launched and the acquisition of PollDaddy amongst others.

For someone who has just recently hit 25.. not a bad list of accomplishments.

We look forward to many more developments.

*date source: wikipedia

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