web developer
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and writer. He is the co-founder of the
free and open source
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web software
WordPress
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along with
Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing the free and open source software, free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordP ...
.
Biography
Mike Little was born in 1962 to a
Nigeria
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n father who was a
musician
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and an English mother in
England
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Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing the free and open source software, free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordP ...
started working on a project in which they built on ''b2/cafelog'' and later named it
WordPress
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, releasing the first version on 27 May 2003.
In June 2013, Little was awarded the
SAScon
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Bibliography
* Douglass, Robert T.; Little, Mike; Smith, Jared W. (2006).''Building Online Communities With Drupal, PhpBB, and WordPress''