25% of the web, every fourth site, is now powered by WordPress, according to W3Tech. Usability and open source in a nutshell. Nearest competitor is Joomla (under 3%), then Drupal (barely over 2%). Just over 57% of the sites have no obvious CMS at all though. That’s where the growth is, says WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg. There’s still a lot to do for open source, and democratic, online publishing.
Tag: Matt Mullenweg
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Matt on Automattic turning ten
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reminiscence about Automattic turning ten:
We just want to make the web a better place. We’re proud to contribute to what I consider the best open source project in the world, WordPress. We bring it to as wide an audience as possible through hosting it on WordPress.com, and providing services for the ones we don’t host with tools like Jetpack. Through it all, we have fun and experiment with side projects that have become crucial to the ways we work — P2, Cloudup, Simplenote, and dozens more that we tried, failed, learned something from, and tried again.
A job well done, Matt!
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Automattic's 16 acquisitions
Matt Mullenweg’s Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has made 16 acquisitions since 2007, as listed by WP Tavern. While it’s hard to know what those acquisitions actually meant for the company, it looks like a lot of services and talent has disappeared within the larger company. Personally, I miss the Poster app, which could’ve been so great, but there are other opportunities on that list that seem lost. Or not, because obviously I know nothing of the innards of Automattic.
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Live where you want to be
Matt Mullenweg, preaching it:
Let people live someplace remarkable instead of paying $2,800 a month for a mediocre one bedroom rental in San Francisco. Or don’t, and let companies like Automattic and Github hire the best and brightest and let them live and work wherever they like.
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WordPress sustainability
Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, thinks we, who make money off the open source publishing platform, should contribute more. 5% of our time, actually.
It’s a big commitment, but I can’t think of a better long-term investment in the health of WordPress overall. I think it will look incredibly modest in hindsight. This ratio is probably the bare minimum for a sustainable ecosystem, avoiding the tragedy of the commons. I think the 5% rule is one that all open source projects and companies should follow, at least if they want to be vibrant a decade from now.
The relevance of WordPress is in our hands, and although I’m not so sure about the numbers (5% might nit be the sweet-spot), I do believe that we need to amp up the contributions from the commercial side of things. We’ll definitely be talking about this at Odd Alice, where we already have contributions and core patches to be proud of, but we can no doubt do more.
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Happy 10th Birthday, WordPress
WordPress turns ten years old today and that’s celebrated across the world (see #wp10 on Twitter and the WP10 site for more). Unfortunately I’m not joining the festivities, despite there being quite a few events in Sweden. Instead I’m stuck at home putting the finishing touches to a very long day, the first of several this week.
Before I turn my attention elsewhere, someplace offline, I did want to write a little something about the world’s dominant CMS, and what’ve paid most of my bills the past few years.
I stumpled onto WordPress early. I used to roll my own platforms, with the help of people more talented than me, and publish videogame sites in Swedish. But I never came to terms with relying on other people’s free time and good will, and I never did get comfortable with all the help I got for free. It was nice and necessary, something we all did together, a bunch of kids making a dent in cyberspace, but in the end I always knew that it was neither sustainable nor fair should costs and money threaten to gain control. I’d been down that road before, and lost a friend because of it. (more…)
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Jag tror på 1.0
För ett tag sedan blev det lite surr kring WordPress-skaparen Matt Mullenwegs post om att version 1.0 inte kan komma tidigt nog. I korthet propsade Matt på att man ska lansera, och sedan jobba vidare – få det gjort.Jag tror på det, som ni kanske anat.
Ajour har som bekant rullat ut med buller och bång, frågetecken och kritik och uppmuntran och hyllningar och sågningar och påhopp och respons och ambivalens och ointresse och hajpsnack och allt däremellan. Lanseringen har kallats ett misslyckande för att vi – jag är en av medgrundarna – inte lyckades leva upp till hajpen. Det är aldrig bra att inte leva upp till hajpen, man ska alltid leverera lite mer än vad man utlovat. (more…)
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WordPress.com adds two commercial themes – this is a good thing
WordPress.com have added commercial themes as an experiment, Matt Mullenweg explains why on ThemeShaper, and there’s a post on the WP.com blog too. I’m positive to this, but I do wish that they called these themes commercial themes rather than premium. More later, I’m taking this weekend off you see.
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WordPress trademark is now where it should be
I’m happy to see that the WordPress trademark now resides with the WordPress Foundation rather than with Automattic. Makes sense, good call Matt & Co.!
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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog release party
Last night was the release party for my book Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog. The whole thing was in conjunction with an event called WPNight, in which I participated as a speaker, along with a couple of other excellent people from the Swedish WordPress community. Matt Mullenweg was there too, unfortunately not physically but via Skype, and he answered questions from the audience. All in all, WPNight was a nice event – if you know any Swedish be sure to check out the videos, the whole thing was recorded of course.
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Några ord om WPNight och min releasefest
Igår var det WPNight, en WordPress-tillställning som WPGirls höll i men som var öppen för alla (med biljett, ska kanske tilläggas) snarare än bara tjejer. Runt hundra WordPress-intresserade personer satt i publiken och lyssnade, först på WPGirls båda utbildare Jessica Björkäng och Anna Johansson, sedan på undertecknad som snackade Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog med mera, och sedan Matt Mullenweg (via Skype), och slutligen inhoppande Erik Pettersson.
Kort kan man väl säga att jag är ganska nöjd med min insats, även om jag inte kollat videon än. För självfallet så livesändes allting – det är trots allt år 2010… (more…)
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The WordPress Foundation
I like the WordPress Foundation concept, and hope that Matt & Co. can do something great with it. So congratulations are in order, I guess, not just to the actual WPF but to the community itself.
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Canonical gör helt rätt
Canonical heter företaget som driver utvecklingen av Linuxdistributionen Ubuntu, gratis för alla att ladda hem och köra för såväl privat som kommersiellt. Ubuntu är open source, så vem som helst kan knoppa av en egen distribution, Canonical äger på intet sätt själva systemet. Själva företaget är Mark Shuttleworths verk, en Linuxentusiast med massor med pengar. Nu får det dock vara nog med investeringarna, enligt TechWorld, som basunerar ut det på kvällstidningsmanér: Ubuntus pengar håller på att ta slut. Luktar kvällstidning, inte sant? (more…)