Matt Mullenweg

If you’re serious

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Matt Mullenweg retracts Pressgram backing

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

Pressgram, an Instagram for WordPress Kickstarter app proposal, lost its primary backer today. Matt Mullenweg had backed the project with the highest $10,000 support level, and retracted it after learning the app would not be open source. John Saddington, who…

Should Automattic switch to Drupal?

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

WordPress News

Haha. I can't even type that title seriously. Matt Mullenweg got a pretty hilarious email telling him perhaps he should consider switching Automattic properties to Drupal. Better get ready.

Matt Mullenweg at SXSW

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg did a short interview with TechCrunch after his SXSW presentation, and he talks about Automattic operating as a remote company, making money without ads, and some of his daily reads. I'm real excited to learn NextDraft (an inspiration behind…

Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2013

WordPress News

Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger's voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers' cumulative voices can spark change in government,…

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

Development

WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.