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…
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…
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…
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November 9, 2020 / PluginsI am Vito Peleg, the founder of Atarim, originally from Israel and based in London, UK. I was not the best student in school, but I was always curious, inventing little things from a young age - I always preferred…
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November 5, 2020 / HostingMy name is Ben Gabler, CEO & Founder of Rocket.net. I grew up in and currently reside in a little town in South Florida called Jupiter (I promise it’s not the planet). ;) I’ve lived in a few different states…
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November 2, 2020 / IndividualsI am Joe Casabona! I’m a podcaster and WordPress developer. I hale from New York but I currently live in a suburb outside of Philadelphia, PA with my wife and two kids. I’m here by way of my wife, whom…
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October 28, 2020 / AgenciesMy name is Oliver Martin from the South-East of Kent, UK. I live in a small rural village with my wife and daughter, not far from where I grew up in the seaside town of Deal, also in Kent. My…
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October 5, 2020 / AgenciesI am Nazim Ansari, a WordPress developer and founder of iPage Solution. I'm 25 and living in Rampur Uttar Pradesh, India. I'm a postgraduate in English from MJPRU Bareilly. When I got passionate and knew about the digital world, It…
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September 13, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Shikhil Sharma, an entrepreneur who loves the art of cybersecurity and building products that make the internet a more secure place. I got attracted to ‘hacking’ as a teenager. Breaking websites, learning how systems can be hacked…
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August 30, 2020 / PluginsI am Natalie MacLees, the founder of Simply Schedule Appointments, but my friends and family affectionately call me "Nat." Experiences in my childhood highlighted the inequities in the world for me. As I grew up, I got more and more…
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August 4, 2020 / HostingMy name is Matt Connor, the founder & CEO of SSD Nodes. We’re a VPS hosting provider perfect for developers and business owners looking for reliable, high-performance cloud hosting & Linux servers. I currently live in Orange County, California, and…
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July 30, 2020 / PluginsI am Frank Goossens, founder of Optimizing Matters, the developer of Autoptimize, and some other WordPress plugins. Optimizing Matters houses the commercial aspects of my WordPress work. I was born, raised, and still living in the northern part of Belgium in…
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July 21, 2020 / IndividualsMy name is Ivica Delic, the Co-founder, and CEO of Freelancers Tools, #1 Hand Curated Software Portal for beginners & professionals with 4,000+ manually collected applications. Portal is created for helping freelancers, startups & others to choose the right &…
