Matthew Charles Mullenweg known as Matt Mullenweg (born in Houston, Texas, United States, January 11, 1984, age 26 years) is the founder and software developer WordPress. 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 well known that WordPress.com, Akismet, and Automattic business.

At age 24 years, Matthew Charles Mullenweg or known by Matt Mullenweg, has become a young millionaire.

He is the founder of WordPress, the site for bloggers. By relying on WordPress, Mullenweg has won purses worth USD 40 million. Matt developed a WordPress as a blog application (open source), so the software and its code are open to the public. Why WordPress should open source?

“If you do something for the money, you will meet many difficulties to sell. But do what you like, then the money will follow you,” he said.

He wants WordPress became valuable to the community, community of diverse interests and views, even a difference. “But one day, all filled with love,” he said.

Through this democratic spirit, he wished WordPress can provide inspiration. Through blogs, according to him, everyone is entitled to express whatever he has in mind.

However, expression through blogs still faces challenges and obstacles in some countries. As in the Turkish court orders to block WordPress. “We also face complex problems in China,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Mullenweg also tried to counteract the WordPress of utilization for the purposes of terrorism.

He has removed about 200 blog affiliated with the WordPress since it relates to crime and terrorism. He wants to portray that the site is managed completely clean of crime. Various additional facilities continue to be made to improve WordPress.

Developments make WordPress more preferred by users. Totality make WordPress more complete, the facility to add-on, making statistics, until the anti-spam. Thanks to WordPress, Mullenweg was named as the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World a year ago.

Later in 2005, he founded Automatti and Akismet is a subsidiary of WordPress. He was also named as one of the 25 most influential entrepreneurs in the information technology industry by Businessweek magazine this year. In fact, youth who were born on January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas launched the WordPress at the age of 21 years.

However, the new story begins in June 2002, when Mullenweg started using blog software, b2/cafelog. In January 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced via his blog that he would develop b2 so in accordance with current networking standards. Together with Mike Little, he began to develop a b2-based WordPress.

Later, they also joined the original developer b2, namely Michel Valdrighi. That is the embryo of the founding of WordPress. Developments make WordPress as the most powerful blogging software. In April 2004, WordPress announced the facility Ping-O-Matic which is used to send notification to the blog search engines like technorati.com.

WordPress is in great demand Internet users. Some famous sites like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Friendster using WordPress on their websites. Until now, no less than 700,000 bloggers is using wordpress.com. According to Businessweek, WordPress site was visited by more than 103 million visitors worldwide in the past year.

In addition to WordPress, Mullenweg also founded the Global Multimedia Protocol Group (GMPG), a format that is more complex than HTML. In April 2004, Matt Mullenweg drop out college and moved from Houston to San Francisco to work at CNET for a year. There, Mullenweg successfully launched Automattic and Askimet, software to block spam.

“Money and the salary is not our primary motivation. However, focus to prefer on is your motivation,” he said. Mullenweg admitted there are various reasons behind the development of WordPress. First, he wanted to create a blog site that allows users to create online sites. He wants everyone may create a blog. Ease of it which in turn tends to make WordPress more popular than others.

Second, he wanted to meet the user desires, including the fulfillment of the growing open source. Mullenweg admitted really liked all the work relating to WordPress. “Moreover, a job I like giving gifts in this world, free for everyone, everyone may use the results of my work,” as he told to bloginterviewer.

Mullenweg admitted that the success obtained by WordPress is the result of cooperation with many people. “I work with people who are remarkable and help demonstrate the activities of publishing on the website. This is what makes WordPress growing rapidly,” said the man who now lives in San Francisco, United States. Mullenweg said, although many of the technical language associated with the computer when creating a WordPress, he at first not know in depth the issues.

He even admitted that he have to learn a lot to learn computer programming language. According to Mullenweg, it is not merely a computer language that is needed to develop a program, but a touch of communication that need attention. “Code (the technical language of computers) is not the most important things in software. On the matter of design, color, branding, and usability are what need to be considered,” he said.

Matt’s History and WordPress

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 own initiative, along with Mike Little Matt began developing a 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, WordPress launching facilities 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.

Even though Matt is a Drop Out (DO) student 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 on the Web” by PC World.

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