History Matt Mullenweg and WordPress

Matt Mullenweg is the creator of free blog provider site: WordPress. He started only 19-years old when he began creating embryo.

WordPress became famous overnight. The reason, the site is easy to use and always updated. Until 2008, there were 230 million fixed accessor to 6.5 billion pages of WordPress that can be seen. Then, there are 35 million additional new post with an average of four million posts every month.

Matt, who had come to Jakarta in January 2009, said he would not sell to big companies with WordPress price 'exorbitant'. He also said, do not seek profit from WordPress. The advantage he had got from some companies, it has.

Matthew Charles Mullenweg known by Matt Mullenweg (born in Houston, Texas, United States, January 11, 1984, age 25 years) is the founding developer of WordPress software. Matt was educated high school in the field of Visual and Performing Arts. He is also adept at playing saxophone music. Although his study is not in the field of computer technology and programming, Matt managed to establish and develop software that is now so famous that is WordPress.com, Akismet, Automattic and its business.

WordPress history began when Matt was 18 years (in 2002). At that time, Matt just started using the facility b2cafelog blog. He uses the blog b2 (bbpress.org) to publish the photographs during a trip to Washington DC However, a few months later, Matt's blog site to publish his picture bbPress stops in developing its software. Because of such conditions, there was some creative thinking of Matt. In January 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced via his blog that he would develop b2 blog so that it meets current web standards.

With their own initiative, along with Mike Little Matt began memgembangkan WordPress coding based b2. Later, Mike and Matt along with Valdrighi Michel (former developer b2), began actively developing WordPress WordPress born until you know today. On May 27, 2003, WordPress version 0.70 released. This 0.7 version still contains the same file structure to its predecessor, b2cafelog.

At the age of 19 years (March 2003), Matt and colleagues established the GMPG with a more complex format than HTML. A year later, launching facilities WordPress Ping-O-Matic which allows you to send a notification to ping blog search engines like Technorati. And today, Ping-O-Matic has served over 1 million pings per day.

While Matt is a student Drop Out (DO) from the campus, he managed to become a wealthy young businessman and successful. In 2007, he was crowned as 16 of the "50 Most Important People in the World Internet" by PC World. And in mid-January 2009, Matt's visit to Indonesia in order to attend as well as a main guest on the show WordCamp Indonesia 2009 - "1st Annual Conference for Indonesian WordPress Enthusiasts"