The News Review:
- WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
- The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth
- WordPress 2.6 Supports Version Tracking Google Gears
- WordPress Matt Mullenweg
WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
guardian.co.uk – Oct 11, 2007
Photograph: Christian SinibaldiMatt Mullenweg the 23-year-old who is the founding developer of the open source blogging software WordPress woke up in March to find that disaster had struck. “A cracker gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers WordPress. org” he later explained on his blog. “They modified two files to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution. “What was alarming was that thousands of people were downloading the code believing it to be the latest – and so the most secure – when in fact it was making their sites vulnerable to attack.
The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth
Washington Post – Aug 16, 2008
The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth. The theme for the “State of the Word” Mullenweg’s yearly.
WordPress 2.6 Supports Version Tracking Google Gears
PC World – Aug 19, 2008
That’s because blogging software is one of the easiest ways to publicize information about your company. The best packages offer near-infinite customizability while still making it easy for new users to get up and running with a bare minimum of installation and configuration.
WordPress Matt Mullenweg
guardian.co.uk – Nov 4, 2006
He loved the jazz saxophone and as a schoolboy discovered a novel way to get free lessons from the saxophonists of Houston Texas: he built them websites. ‘I would barter websites for music lessons’ he says. ‘The websites were pretty awful but for Houston the jazz musicians were pretty good. ‘Five years ago Mullenweg still hoped to become a professional jazz musician.