Matt Mullenweg

Developes Old Blogging Website

Jan 2, 2003

BBPress, a preexisting bloging website, stopped developing its software. Because of such conditions, there was some creative thinking of Matt. In January 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced via his blog that he would develop b2 blog to match the web standards at the time.

WordPress is Released

Mar 27, 2003

WordPress version 0.70 released. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content-management system

CNET hires Matt Mullenweg

Oct 29, 2004

CNET, a popular tech company that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics globally, hires Matt Mullenweg and starts to use his Wordpress software.

Matt Mullenweg Leaves CNET

Aug 20, 2005

He left CNET to start developing Automatic which created an umbrella group that would support lots of open source developers, working on open source things. It would help many websites become easier to use due to Automattics coding.

Matt Mullenweg Creates bbPress

Oct 18, 2005

Matt Mullenweg expands upon his open source website resources and creates another succesful website. It is called bbPress and it is an open discussion forum website.