WordPress Turns 22! Here’s What Some Founders Say About the CMS Giant
Twenty-two years ago today, two college students with a shared vision changed the internet forever. On May 27, 2003, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released the first version of WordPress, born from the discontinued b2/cafelog blogging platform. What started as…
Nirmal Gyanwali – Founder of WP Creative
My Name is Nirmal Gyanwali. I am the founder of WP Creative, based in Sydney, Australia. I started my career as a website developer in the mid-2000s, worked in digital agencies for about 10 years, and then started WP Creative…
May 7, 2021 / PluginsI am Chris Badgett, CEO, and co-founder of LifterLMS. I live on a small farm in a small town on the coast of Maine in the United States. I grew up in North Carolina and studies Anthropology, Sustainable Development, and…
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April 8, 2021 / AgenciesI am Edman, kookookachu (Beatles joke), the founder of Cloud Nine Web Design. I grew up in Manteno, IL, a suburb of Chicago. There, I attended the traditional Elementary, Junior High, and High school, as well as KCHA for Computer…
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April 3, 2021 / AgenciesMy name is Barış Ünver, a 32-year-old WordPress developer living in Ankara, Turkey. I own a small business called Optimocha, offering tailored speed optimization services for WordPress-based websites. We’re also the maintainers of the Speed Booster Pack plugin, and we…
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February 25, 2021 / PluginsMy name is Sebastiaan van der Lans, the founder of WordProof, and I live in Amsterdam with my soon-to-be-husband Mirco. I started studying to become an engineer. In 2016, I started my WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’ and switched my study to…
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February 9, 2021 / PluginsI am Anh Tran, the founder of the Meta Box plugin for WordPress. Many people know me via the nickname Rilwis when I first started with WordPress (sharing my knowledge on my personal Deluxe Blog Tips blog). I’m living in…
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January 22, 2021 / ThemesMy name is Muhammad Munir Kamal, the founder of Gutenberg Hub and CakeWP. I live in Karachi, Pakistan where I did my graduation in Commerce. I am a father of a beautiful 5-year-old daughter. At CakeWP, we build WordPress plugins,…
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December 13, 2020 / PluginsI am Adrian, the CEO of Groundhogg Inc., FormLift.NET, and co-founder of MailHawk.io. I help small businesses launch their funnel, grow their list, and scale their business with proven digital marketing tools and strategies. I’m from Toronto, Ontario in Canada…
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November 30, 2020 / ThemesMy name is Sonal Sinha, the founder of SKT Themes, a WordPress themes, and plugins store. I prefer being called Shri as clients find the later name easier, and my initial company was named Shri Krishna Technologies, so naturally, people…
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November 16, 2020 / AgenciesI am Dave Swift. I started my first business in 7th grade by convincing my parents to buy me a box of 100 Blow Pops for $5, which I sold out of my locker for fifty cents each. That was…
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November 12, 2020 / IndividualsMy name is Shay Toder, a Page Speed Optimization Expert. Got 1st place in 2019 & 3rd place in 2020 in a worldwide WordPress performance contest. Owner of ShayToder.com - a blog dedicated to page speed optimization. The Journey Began…
