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 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…
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…
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May 20, 2020 / IndividualsMy name is Bridget Willard. I grew up in Central California and went to college in Southern California to be a teacher. After I realized that parents were the worst bosses ever, I went back to my trade: secretarial work.…
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May 14, 2020 / IndividualsMy name is Jan Koch, a WordPress developer from Germany. I have an integrated degree in Business Informatics and live in the countryside in North-West Germany, close to the North Sea. My wife and I have a nice property in…
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May 12, 2020 / AgenciesI am Alex Panagis. I’m the founder of ScaleMath – an SEO & marketing agency. I’m currently living and working out of the UK, but I grew up all over the world including Nigeria, Leeds, Bahrain, Oman, and Switzerland… The…
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May 8, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Benjamin Denis, founder of SEOPress, I live in Anglet, France (right next to Biarritz, which is popular among surfers). 12 years ago I started working with WordPress in my spare time as a student of Economics Management…
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May 7, 2020 / Plugins, WordCamp SpeakersI am Oliver Sild, the founder of WebARX (now Patchstack), a web security company protecting websites from third-party code (such as WordPress plugins/themes) vulnerabilities. I live in Estonia where I have previously co-founded a co-working space and a cybersecurity community…
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May 2, 2020 / BloggersMy name is Maddy Osman, the Founder of The Blogsmith. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, IL, and went to college at the University of Iowa. After graduating, I worked at Groupon and a Chicago social media agency…
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April 30, 2020 / HostingI am Tom Fanelli, the CEO and Founder of Convesio, a company focused on hosting high performance, scalable WordPress sites. I have a long history in the WordPress space that eventually led to our unique take on WordPress hosting. The…
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April 10, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Yoni Luksenberg and I am from Bnei Brak, Israel. I've been working with WordPress for close to ten years now. Before that, I was a video editor and used to work with animating flash banners. One day,…
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April 10, 2020 / HostingI am Dusty Davidson, the co-founder, and CEO of Flywheel, a delightful WordPress hosting and development platform built for designers, freelancers, and agencies. I spend about half my time recruiting exceptional people to build the Flywheel team and the other…
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April 10, 2020 / BloggersMy name is Gijo Varghese, founder of WP Speed Matters, and a blogger (30%), developer (60%), and entrepreneur (10%). A WordPress speed enthusiast, from India, Kerala. I run WP Speed Matters, a blog, and a community that focuses on WordPress…
