Mike Little

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Mike Little

Mike Little at Young Rewired State 2012
Occupation Co-founder, WordPress[1]
Founder, zed1.com Limited
Co-founder, Maverick Marketing Ltd
Freelance Technical Editor[2]
Known for WordPress
Website mikelittle.org

Mike Little (born May 12, 1962) is an English web developer living in Stockport, England and co-founder[1] of the free and open source web software WordPress along with American Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress

WordPress is the official successor to a blogging tool developed by French programmer Michel Valdrighi named b2/cafelog,[3] which launched in 2001. In 2002 Valdrighi stopped developing b2, and on January 24, 2003 Matt Mullenweg, a user of b2/cafelog, wrote on his blog that he’d be willing to create a fork of the project.[4] Mike Little soon contacted Mullenweg by leaving a comment on Mullenweg's blog that read "If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Perhaps a post to the B2 forum, suggesting a fork would be a good starting point."[4] – following which Little and Mullenweg began working together on the development of WordPress, releasing the first version on May 27, 2003.[1][5] In June 2013 Little was awarded the SAScon's "Outstanding Contribution to Digital" award for his part in co-founding and developing WordPress.[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "History". WordPress Codex. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mike Little". LinkedIn. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ "About WordPress". WordPress.org. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Matt Mullenweg (January 24, 2003). "The Blogging Software Dilemma".
  5. ↑ "How a Stockport developer helped create the world's biggest online publishing phenomenon – for free". Prolific North. February 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Unsung Internet Visionary to be Honoured at SASCON". SAScon. May 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Internet Visionary Honoured". Cheshire Border Independent Newspaper. June 26, 2013.


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