Matthew Charles Mullenweg, or known by Matt Mullenweg was born on January 11, 1984 (the new 25th birthday), in Houston, Texas - United States. WordPress history began when Matt was 18 years (in 2002). At that time, Matt just started to use the blog facility b2cafelog blog. He uses the blog b2 (bbpress.org) to publish his photographs during a trip to Washington DC.
In January 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced via his blog that he would develop a blog b2 so in compliance with web standards at the time. With its own initiative, with Mike Little Matt began developing WordPress coding based b2. Later, Mike and Matt along Valdrighi Michel (former developer b2), began actively developing WordPress WordPress born until you know today. On May 27, 2003, WordPress version 0.70 released. This 0.7 version still contains the same file structure to its predecessor, b2cafelog. At the age of 19 years (March 2003), Matt and colleagues established GMPG with a more complex format than HTML. A year later, launching facilities WordPress Ping-O-Matic which allows you to send notification to ping blog search engines like Technorati. And today, Ping-O-Matic has served over 1 million pings per day.
In 2004, bad luck happened to Matt in the field of formal education. He dropped out and moved from Houston to San Francisco (California) to work at CNET for a year. His job at CNET for a year during the last stage is Matt worked in the company. Because at the age of 21 years, Matt has 'early retirement' from company CNET, and he spends his time working for WordPress. Not long out of retirement, he also managed to launch an application that functions to block the Akismet comment and trackback are identified as spam. In the same year, Matthew decided to WordPress open to the general public worldwide in November 2005. In the same year, he launched the Automattic of a business enterprise that supports WordPress and Akismet.