KEEP ON BLOGGING IN A FREE WORLD WordPress founder and open-source crusader Matt Mullenweg talks to us about his evolving and ever-popular blogging platform.
KATHERINE DRUCKMAN PHOTO BY RICHARD WHEELER nless you’ve been living under a rock for a
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WordPress has a tremendous community both in terms of
few years, you most certainly have heard of
size and enthusiasm, and many people make their living
WordPress, one of the most popular blogging
implementing and using it. Since its first release in 2003, the
platforms around that also happens to be 100%
community has grown with the application, and WordPress’
open source. There are a few iterations of WordPress that power
commitment to open source is as strong as ever. I have a
personal and corporate blogs as well as collections of blogs for
WordPress blog, and a lot of my friends have WordPress blogs,
large institutions, like Harvard University. And, WordPress.com
so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to ask founding
brings blogging to anyone with just a few clicks.
developer, Matt Mullenweg, some questions about his project.
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