Mike Little

Mike Little (born 12 May 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.

This article is about the web developer. For other uses, see Mike Little (disambiguation).

Mike Little
Mike Little at Young Rewired State 2012
Born (1962-05-12) May 12, 1962
OccupationCo-founder, WordPress[1]
Founder, zed1.com Limited
Co-founder, Maverick Marketing Ltd
Freelance Technical Editor[2]
Known forWordPress
Websitemikelittle.org

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 24 January 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 27 May 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. "History". WordPress Codex. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  2. "Mike Little". LinkedIn. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  3. "About WordPress". WordPress.org. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  4. Matt Mullenweg (24 January 2003). "The Blogging Software Dilemma".
  5. "How a Stockport developer helped create the world's biggest online publishing phenomenon – for free". Prolific North. 4 February 2013.
  6. "Unsung Internet Visionary to be Honoured at SASCON". SAScon. 17 May 2013. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014.
  7. "Internet Visionary Honoured". Cheshire Border Independent Newspaper. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.
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