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…
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…
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 &…
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July 18, 2020 / PluginsI am Brian Jackson, an entrepreneur, content marketer, and WordPress agency owner from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. I’m a PK (pastor’s kid) and growing up, we moved around a bit. I've lived in a couple of interesting places over the years:…
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July 15, 2020 / HostingMy name is Bryan Muthig. I grew up in, currently reside, and co-founded A2 Hosting in the eponymous Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Go Blue!) Originally, my background is as a Unix Systems Administrator. My parents are from Germany and I am…
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July 13, 2020 / AgenciesWe are Hans Skillrud and Donata Skillrud, the founders of Termageddon, a generator of Privacy Policies for your websites that automatically update when the laws change. We have been into WordPress for the last couple of years and never looked back,…
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July 10, 2020 / PluginsI am Michael Makijenko, the founder and CEO of Visual Composer. I'm from Riga, Latvia, and together with my team we are proudly serving and helping users worldwide to get their business online. I have a master’s degree in Telecommunications,…
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July 9, 2020 / IndividualsMy name is Johnny Nguyen aka WPJohnny. I’m known in the WordPress community as a WordPress speed expert and web hosting expert. WPJohnny.com is my site for WordPress guides and reviews. JohnnyVPS is my ultra-fast WordPress hosting service. I was…
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July 6, 2020 / AgenciesI am Mario Peshev, a tech entrepreneur from Bulgaria passionate about business strategy and growth opportunities. I was an introverted nerd as a kid and spent most of my time with books or around computers. Currently, I run DevriX, a…
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July 4, 2020 / AgenciesMy name is Nando Pappalardo, founder of YITH (YIThemes). I was born in Acireale, a town in the province of Catania (Sicily), the first of the three children of my parents, Rosario and Carmela. As a boy, I loved computers…
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June 8, 2020 / PluginsI am Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier (a pretty complicated name right?), people call me JB that’s much easier. I’m the co-founder and CEO of WP Media. Our mission is to help people having faster websites. We have two products so far WP…
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May 27, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Anthony Gordon, founder of WooSignal, RoomsLocal, CodaMarket, and a few other startups. I’m originally from Birmingham, UK (near Moseley Village). I still visit Birmingham now and again but I travel around more nowadays. My childhood has been…
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May 24, 2020 / AgenciesI am Jason Resnick and I live in NY with my wife and 2 young sons, living my dream. I’m the founder of NurtureKit and rezzz and have run my own business since 2010. My parents were divorced when I…
