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Website
  
mikelittle.org

Name
  
Mike Little


Role
  
Web Developer

Known for
  
WordPress

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Occupation
  
Co-founder, WordPress Founder, zed1.com Limited Co-founder, Maverick Marketing Ltd Freelance Technical Editor

Books
  
Building Online Communities with Drupal, PhpBB, and WordPress

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

Contents

WordPress

WordPress is the official successor to a blogging tool developed by French programmer Michel Valdrighi named b2/cafelog, 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. 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." – following which Little and Mullenweg began working together on the development of WordPress, releasing the first version on May 27, 2003. In June 2013 Little was awarded the SAScon's "Outstanding Contribution to Digital" award for his part in co-founding and developing WordPress.

References

Mike Little Wikipedia