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WordPress — 9 years since it’s conception

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Simon D reminded me that it is now nine years since my fate­ful com­ment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!

Nine years ago today @ floated an idea which even­tu­ally became WordPress. #thanksmike http://t.co/teYbVHX8
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WordPress is really shap­ing up, and is an ever­more stable and func­tional CMS plat­form. The stat­ist­ics con­tinue to be aston­ish­ing, with more than 70 mil­lion sites around the world. That’s nearly 16% of the web!

WordPress is sup­port­ing a whole industry of WordPress experts, includ­ing me: I’m just start­ing my fourth year as an inde­pend­ent WordPress spe­cial­ist.

Praise must go as usual to the fant­astic com­munity around WordPress, the sin­gu­lar vis­ion of Matt Mul­len­weg, and the awe­some power of the GNU GPL open source license.

With ver­sion 3.4 cur­rently in the mak­ing, I pre­dict it will be another great year for WordPress.

WordPress’ Eighth Birthday

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Today is WordPress’ offi­cial eighth birth­day (the anniversary of the first release).

I still mar­vel at the incred­ible dis­tance it has come. I’m also still proud that I had a part in its birth. But even more, I mar­vel at the won­der­ful con­tri­bu­tion of all the WordPress com­munity make to this fant­astic project.

A cli­ent said to me this morn­ing “This WordPress is bril­liant isn’t it?” As I helped him set up his fourth WordPress site. You can’t get much clearer praise than that.

So raise a vir­tual beer (or other non-alcoholic bever­age if, like me, you are tee­total) to WordPress, the com­munity, and to another year.

Update: I just spot­ted this tweet from Andrew Nacin:

At more than 20 mil­lion WordPress.com blogs, that puts WordPress at north of 45 mil­lion sites. Wowza. Happy birth­day indeed.
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Wow! 25 mil­lion stan­dalone WordPress sites plus 20 mil­lion WordPress.com sites! No won­der it powers more than 14 per­cent of the web.

WordPress — 8 Years in the making

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Wow! Another year has passed and it is now eight years since my fate­ful com­ment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!

WordPress is now a mature CMS plat­form driv­ing 13% of the web! It is used for an aston­ish­ing array of very dif­fer­ent web sites around the world, from the humblest one per­son blog to award-winning edu­ca­tion sites, celebrity sites, news­pa­pers, and even world lead­ers!

WordPress is sup­port­ing a whole industry of WordPress experts, includ­ing me: I’m now in my third year as an inde­pend­ent WordPress spe­cial­ist.

I believe that WordPress has achieved this massive suc­cess in no small way because of the fant­astic com­munity around it, the keen-eyed vis­ion of Matt Mul­len­weg, and the awe­some power of the GNU GPL open source license.

With ver­sion 3.1 just around the corner, I pre­dict it will be another great year for WordPress.

WordCamp slides featured on Slideshare

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The slides from my present­a­tion at WordCamp UK in Manchester over the week­end are now on Slide­Share. I presen­ted on the fant­astic I’m a Sci­ent­ist Get me Out of Here pro­ject web­site I have built for Gal­lo­manor this year.

It’s best to read the notes in the “Notes on slide x” tab so that everything makes sense! I also link to some of the plu­gins I used at the end.

Amaz­ingly, the present­a­tion fea­tures on the Slide­Share home page today along with a couple of other present­a­tions from WordCamp UK! See the “fea­tured” sec­tion in the right hand column. Woo Hoo!

I have still to fin­ish my write-up of the week­end, but will hope­fully get that done ‘real soon’.

WordCamp UK A Few Places Left

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For those of you think­ing you may have missed out on this com­ing weekend’s WordPress fun at WordCamp UK in Manchester, think again!

As the tick­ets did not com­pletely sell out, we are mak­ing the last few avail­able on the door, as we did last year.

You must email me (mike at my domain ) to reserve a ticket, and then turn up on Sat­urday morn­ing with your £30 cash.

To recap, WordCamp UK is this week­end, July 17th and 18th, at the Manchester Met­ro­pol­itan Uni­ver­sity Busi­ness School which is in Manchester city centre, a few minutes walk from the main Pic­ca­dilly train Station.

There are four sim­ul­tan­eous tracks : Gen­eral & user, Spe­cial­ist & developer, Mis­cel­laneous & spon­tan­eous and a ‘Genius Bar’ (a range of WordPress experts avail­able to advice attendees on a one-to-one basis).

I look for­ward to see­ing you there.

WordCamp UK, Manchester July 17 – 18 2010

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The third annual WordCamp UK is tak­ing place later this month in Manchester, which is just up the road from me.

Tick­ets are on sale now just £30. That’s £30 for two full days of meet­ing fel­low WordPress users, pub­lish­ers, design­ers, and developers.

The uncon­fer­ence is being held on the week­end of July 17th and 18th at the Manchester Met­ro­pol­itan Uni­ver­sity Busi­ness School which is in Manchester city centre and just a few minutes walk from the main Pic­ca­dilly train Station.

There are four sim­ul­tan­eous tracks this year: Gen­eral & user, Spe­cial­ist & developer, Mis­cel­laneous & spon­tan­eous and a ‘Genius Bar’ (a range of WordPress experts avail­able to advice attendees on a one-to-one basis).

I’ll be there, of course, and will be present­ing on Sunday. I’ll prob­ably hang around the Genius bar at times too. It will be a great week­end, if you are a WordPress user, developer, or designer, or are just con­sid­er­ing using WordPress, you should come along.

I look for­ward to see­ing you there.

Seven Years Since WordPress 0.7

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It was seven years ago today that WordPress was first released . Just a few months after it’s incep­tion.

Now WordPress is a grown up CMS cap­able of much more than just blog­ging, but I noticed that one of the key points of that release still holds true.

New Admin­is­tra­tion Inter­face — We’ve made it as simple as pos­sible, and no more.

I’m eagerly look­ing for­ward to the 3.0 release, that is just around the corner.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little

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The inter­view I did with Matt Mul­len­weg at WordCamp UK in Cardiff last year has finally made it on to WordPress.tv

In it,  Gur­bir Singh of astrotalkuk inter­views Matt and I.  We dis­cuss the his­tory of WordPress,  the open source philo­sophy behind it,  a little about our back­grounds, fame, and… astronomy.

Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little interview screen shot

Go watch the inter­view, it’s pretty cool.