Matthew Mullenwig, is the owner of WordPress and the creator of the popular WPLift plugin. Mullenwig is a keynote speaker and blogger who has spoken at conferences all over the world on topics such as WordPress marketing, community building, personal development, entrepreneurship, and more.
Wordpress was started back in 2003 when Mullenweg was 19 years old! Since then it has grown to be the most popular content management system on the planet with more than 50 million websites using WordPress worldwide.
WordPress is an open-source publishing platform with a focus on ease of use, extensibility, security, and speed. WordPress is used by millions of people around the world to create their website and it is one of the most widely used website creation tools on the Internet today.
The WordPress system allows users to create their websites without coding expertise or knowledge, which is a significant advantage for beginners as well as experienced web developers and designers.
In his presentation at WordCamp US ’18, Mullenweg spoke about the importance of community and giving back in the community in order to grow the WordPress brand as well as the open source community as a whole. In his talk, he gave some valuable advice on how to be successful in community and web development, and the importance of supporting and encouraging the growth of the community in general.