Happy birthday, WordPress!
What does that even mean, though? WordPress is the community of people who have built it and contributed to it over the last two decades, and before that, when it was a little known blogging package called b2. So, thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to WordPress over the years.
WordPress has given me, and countless others, many opportunities we couldn’t have dreamed of. Just over two years after WordPress was first released, I joined Automattic. Working on two machines, Matt and I started work on the first WordPress.com. Here I am, almost 18 years later, and still working on WordPress related software. What a journey. Matt marked the occasion by announcing a generous scholarship programme. Matt was also on stage in London with Mike Little and Dries Buytaert last week in a conversation I must listen to yet, but I’ve heard some good things about it WRT Gutenberg.
Anyway, it’s almost midnight here, but I wanted to get some words down on this blogging platform we all love. May we all be here for the next twenty years.
Oh, and before I go, you can hear me say a few words about meetups at Automattic in the latest episode of the Distributed podcast. It’s edited well, that’s all I’ll say!