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Interview to Matt Mullenweg

Matt MullenwegMatt Mullenweg is a 23 years old boy born in Houston, Texas, that works in Automattic, a company founded by him in 2005.

It doesn’t seem an interesting news, but Matt Mullenweg happens to be the creator of WordPress.

I’ve asked Matt a short interview fot italian people and he gave me it, by return email.

Daniele Imperi – Why do you decided to release WordPress free?

Matt Mullenweg – I think it’s inevitable that all major software development is open source. Most software suffers from obscurity, not monetization.

DI – Are you satisfied for the success of WordPress?

MM – It’s been good so far, but I think we’re just at the beginning of how it’s going to grow.

DI – What’s the future of WordPress?

MM – The future is in the hand of our users, who drive all of the development.

DI – Can you draw up statistics about the popularity of your CMS?

MM – We have over a million blogs on WordPress.com, and estimate there are 1-2 million who self-host.

DI – What’s, in your opinion, the secret of the success of WordPress?

MM – There’s no secret, it’s just a lot of hard work and attention to detail.

DI – What are your future projects?

MM – I’d like to make all aspects of managing a site and community as effortless as WordPress has made publishing.

DI – Have the blogs changed the way to communicate?

MM – No.

DI – Why the name “WordPress” and who designed the logo?

MM – Jason Santa Maria designed the logo. The name was from my friend Christine, I liked it because it evoked sort of an old-school publishing mentality.

DI – Which has been the bigger difficulty to make the WordPress project?

MM – I would say we’ve learned a ton along the way both about building scalable software and managing a large community, the latter has been the hardest.

DI – I have noted that a web site made by WordPress gets a good positioning. Does Google love WordPress or is there another reason?

MM – I think Google loves WordPress. :)