And here’s the grand finally of the whole blogger interviews era!
Matt Mullenweg, creator/founder of wordpress.
Matt, first of all how does it feel to be the creator of wordpress, the blogging platform that has the majority of the bloggers online?
Darn good. 
It’s an honor to be at the service of so many fine folks.
How did you get started on wordpress? or blogging, in general?
I had gotten a Sony digital camera and on a trip to Washington D.C. and wanted to share the photos I was taking with my friends and family back home. I was reading blogs at the time and had even started my own using Movable Type, but that trip was the catalyst for me to move to my own domain (photomatt.net) and find a better blogging system, which at the time was b2/cafelog.
There are tons and tons of plugins and addons out there for wordpress that turn it into a powerful cms rather then just a blogging platform, do you think automattic would ever release those kind of plugins/mods?
Sure, we watch the plugin ecosystem pretty closely and when something gets popular we always look closely at if and how it should be integrated with the core system.
How important do you think content is compared to the design of the blog?
Infinitely more important. Of course there’s not usually a choice that has to be made between the two, but I would always focus on content first.
Spam comments, I’ve had nearly 10,000 in 7 months, why is it that there are so many windows/server applications that allow spamming on wordpress so much? I know that most of them want links but recently there are alot of comments seen that are really bizarre, with absolutely no meaning, valid email or link..
I can’t fathom what goes on in the mind of spammers sometimes, I imagine the nonsense ones are some sort of tracking system to see which comment get through defense systems.
What would you say is a blogger’s most unique and valuable asset?
Their voice.
Any tips for my readers and all bloggers out there?
Try to incorporate something visual with every post, be it a photo, illustration, or video.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for the great interviews Gnet!
September 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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September 10th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Does that guy ever NOT wear a Wordpress shirt?
September 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Wow the creater of wordpress interviewed by blueverse. That’s awesome. And he is even wearing the wordpress t-shirt.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Nice interview.
Its funny how he got into blogging…
If he hadn’t wanted to share his pics from his camera with others, then we may not have had wordpress today… lol.
I definitely agree with the last question. I always try to incorporate a pic or video in my posts. It makes them more interactive for readers…
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 am
i met matt at wordcamp philippines 2008 last september 6, 2008. He is so humble and cool guy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 am
This is a great interview, thanks for sharing
January 18th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Incredible how far Wordpress has come.
Hats off to Matt, he seems like a really down to earth kind of guy.
Is wordpress more used than blogspot? Just interested.
Stan
February 17th, 2009 at 8:51 am
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March 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am
excellent interview. highly informative. the tip to add vidoes, images etc has given me more bright ideas for my blog.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Not that I’m totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on SU telling that the info is quite decent. Thanks.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 am
10.000 spam comments wow thats a lot! Great interview,thanks for sharing
July 10th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
that's a nice interview, and Matt is so cute, isnt he? lol
July 10th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Damn how did you get an interview with him? I give you props for sure because I know from experience it's not easy to get high profile interviews. WP is an amazing CMS and I use if for 90% of my websites. Now if I could only get Matt to personally endorse me with a link from wordpress.com I would be on my way!
July 11th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I wonder how much he is worth?
July 13th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Thank for sharing the such informative interview. Keep it up. It That's awesome.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:24 am
if I could only get Matt to personally endorse me with a link from wordpress.com I would be on my way!
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
It’s a nice post, lot of hard work put in to build this blog. I am in deep love with it and I will be back often to view updates. Bye for now.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Wow the creater of wordpress interviewed by blueverse. That's awesome. And he is even wearing the wordpress t-shirt.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Any tips for my readers and all bloggers out there?
Try to incorporate something visual with every post, be it a photo, illustration, or video.
This is my favorite part of interview,many bloggers forget to follow this "rule",something visual can make your visitors to stick around..
August 4th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Matt Mullenweg really knows his stuff =) A great voice in the Wordpress / blogging community
August 13th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I think all bloggers should owe it to Matt. He had a vision and saw this coming from miles away and capitalized on it. Great job Matt!
August 13th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Excellent work every buddy can get lots of interesting information, keep on posting this type of brilliant articles.
thanks
August 13th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Very nice information. Check out my blog, I just posted a great blog about the 36 Best Wordpress plugins for 2009.
August 13th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Heh, i would be wearing that t-shirt all the time as well if i had invented wordpress before the age of 25.. By the way, happy birthday Matt i heard you turned 25 not long ago. My hat of to you for delivering such a great product as Wordpress!
August 18th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I am doing it from years . after reading this interview i am thinking how idea's come in mind. Actually "Needs Make inventions to happen"
August 18th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Great interview indeed and a lot of interesting information on Matt Mullenweg website about increasing traffic and some other SEO techniques…
August 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I definitely agree with the last question. I always try to incorporate a pic or video in my posts. It makes them more interactive for readers…
August 21st, 2009 at 7:42 am
I was checking out that site recently, and noticed that the concept is so simple yet they make so much money. The founder isn't trying too hard to make things look "perfect".
August 24th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Its an interesting interview. Thanks for the post Ashon
August 29th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Great interview, thanks guys.
September 6th, 2009 at 4:56 am
This is a great interview, thanks for sharing
September 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
He had a vision and saw this coming from miles away and capitalized on it. Great job Matt!
September 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
The most recent episode of the WPWeekly podcast is one giant interview with Matt Mullenweg covering a wide range of questions and topics
September 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
This was a great interview.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Thanks, Excellent work every buddy can get lots of interesting information, keep on posting this type of brilliant articles.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Great help thanks – agree that visuals help with the posts.
September 12th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Great interview indeed and a lot of interesting information.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Trackbacks is a wonderful idea. I am actually going to do that next time I see an article that sparks my interest. Thanks for the advice.
Regards,
September 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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September 18th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Great interview!
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Awesome interview, very interesting.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
damn.. how'd u guys score that interview?
September 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
not until today, that I know the creator of wordpress… thank you and I'm in awe
October 6th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
How do you define a spam? If a spammer take times to formulate his comment, is that a spam even though he might put a backlink?
October 7th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Matt is a great guy, I dont find words to describe how popular is word press. It is being used by almost every one because of ease of use. Matt you really rock
October 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Wordpress rocks its really a great platform for bloggers. Matt surely deserves the credit for giving us such a wonderful platform.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Wordpress is awesome. Congratulations to the guy. Interesting to read about the people behind these sort of products.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Excellent Interveiw ….thank you
October 16th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Finally someone interviewed this guy. He has great qualities and deserves more interviews and get out there!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I can't believe how great of a platform he has created. This man is pure genius!
October 16th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
You got a hold of Matt, wow… The best thing that he said is add photo, graph, etc that can explain more about the topic other than your words. Latest is videos.. possibly add more videos, will be a world where lots will be expressed through videos than content. Most i hate about wordpress is the popularity so becoming a pray to spammers.
October 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Thanks a lot nice share!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Well needless to say that Matt is a genius..and he has made plenty of money out of it
October 19th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Matt has indeed created a great social and business platform
I love wordpress and use it for both personal and business use
thank you for this interview
October 19th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Great interview
I like where he says that a blogger's most valuable asset is their voice and that is spot on.
I blog frequently and blogging gives me a voice,a free platform to have my opinion and voice heard
Thanks Matt and thanks for this interview
October 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
What an amazing guy this is. Just thinking about being the creator of the ever most powerful blogging tool around would be amazing.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:41 am
It was very easy to start my first blog on Wordpress and they have so many add-ons. The blog can be customized to fit your exact needs. Good job Matt!
October 20th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Why can't I think of things like creating a blog platform? damn.
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 am
This is my favorite part of interview,many bloggers forget to follow this "rule",something visual can make your visitors to stick around..
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 am
Very nice information. Check out my blog, I just posted a great blog about the 36 Best Wordpress plugins for 2009.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Fun to read. Thanks!
October 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
matt is my personal star !
October 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Awesome. Most of us have great ideas. We just need to follow through.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Thqanks for good post.Best regards Bobsa.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
About what he says about no valid email or link, ive also had the same issue,
i am even receiving emails like dsaiojd@dsajd.com and i look for the content and theres nothin inside, the worst is that i get thousands of them, its really annoying.
This man is amazing, thought i would like to read a little bit more about him.
Thank you
Patricia
October 28th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Great stuff, have to check out your newer things on this.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Nice interview. You've been very inspired to take a interview from the godfather of wordpress
.gj
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Thats very interesting I really like posts like this Thanks a lot for sharing its really awesome
November 4th, 2009 at 7:35 am
looking good.Thanks a lot for sharing ..
November 4th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Don't know where you guys get all this helpful stuff from. Keep it coming.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I like the last tip. A picture says a thousand words. Super dude this guy and wordpress still is supreme imo.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I like where he says that a blogger's most valuable asset is their voice and that is spot on.
I blog frequently and blogging gives me a voice,
November 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am
excellent interview. highly informative. the tip to add vidoes, images etc has given me more bright ideas for my blog.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:10 am
I am very impressed with the Founder of WordPress. I always use WordPress for blogging. I hope WordPress is growing. thank you for the information interview, very interesting.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I always use wordpress to create a website or making blog. wordpress has plugins, which is very interesting. This interview is very interesting, I am very kagun with Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress has created.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
brings out lot more with interviews.. appreciate for sharing
November 9th, 2009 at 7:54 am
good informations, i like.
thanks
November 9th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Thans so much. I just getting into word pressing blogs.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Great work guys – found it helpful. Will look out for more of your blogs.
November 11th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Great post. thanks for sharing have digged
November 12th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
This is a great interview, thanks.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:29 am
wordpress very helpful to bloggers. I was very impressed with Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress has created. thank you for the interview, very useful.
November 14th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I always use wordpress to create a blog. Wordpress has a plugin that can help the bloggers. Wordpress plugin very useful. Interview with Matt Mullenweg is very interesting. I hope to meet directly with Matt Mullenweg.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I think wordpress must dominate the market, its an amazing situation that only companies in cyber land seem to achieve if you think about off line businesses market domination is the extreme exception but for internet products and services – the ability to really corner the market is truly pheasible whether it is recruitment, jobs or to books!
November 15th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Finally someone interviewed this guy. He has great qualities and deserves more interviews and get out there!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I usually use WP for blogs on own domains. But I worry about security of WP
November 16th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Cool !
November 17th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Thanks for this information. Its very interesting to know about a wordpress creator.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
thanks for sharing the interview.
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
"i met matt at wordcamp philippines 2008 last september 6, 2008. He is so humble and cool guy.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Something that everyone should think about – great interview
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
wao, its very amazing to see the the picture of Matt Mullenweg, he really did a nice work, i like. thanks for the post
November 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
He is very handsome, I think many women will love him, I wish that I can handsome like him.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:52 am
A great interview allright, I liked that.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Where can I buy this nice t-shirt? I hate this Joomla T-shirt I have – it is too old fashion now
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
wordpress is build as a blog, but because you can modify it the way you want with many and many addons you can use wordpress as a powerful CMS. I saw many sites that build with wordpress and they are far from being considered blogs.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I think wordpress has the leading blog audience hands down. Google pushes blogspot, but I think wordpress is a far superior product. I use wordpress exclusively.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:32 am
I bet he is really proud to create something as powerful as wordpress! I would be ecstatic if I accomplished something that cool. Thanks
December 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I really like the t-shirt
December 6th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Must admit, that without wordpress i wouldn't be blogging, so easy to use
December 7th, 2009 at 5:40 am
wordpress is the best thing in the world, and the interview is good, matt himself give creative suggestion among bloggers
December 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Any tips for my readers and all bloggers out there?
Try to incorporate something visual with every post, be it a photo, illustration, or video.
This is my favorite part of interview,many bloggers forget to follow this "rule",something visual can make your visitors to stick around..
December 11th, 2009 at 3:57 am
I love Wordpress. Matt is a genius in my book. I couldn't live without it. Seriously it rocks.
December 13th, 2009 at 5:06 am
wow i was yawning reading this interview, just ok for me ….
December 15th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
10000 spam ? that's big number
December 17th, 2009 at 4:04 am
that’s big number
December 19th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Love the interview. Kept me occupied while sitting on the train via iphone. thanks
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
The interview was great !
There are so many full time bloggers working on wordpress self hosted platform.Nothing can beat wordpress self hosted blog.Its simply the best. No one can compete with it.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
He could be proud for his work and maybe even retire because so popular platform, even while it's for free can bring huge amount of money.
December 25th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Nice article and Merry Christmas
Jenny
December 26th, 2009 at 5:02 am
great interview. I use wordpress for almost all my website. I really thank matt for invented this great platform
December 27th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Thanks for sharing
December 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am
oh….Thanks for the post!
That man should be a real genius to create such a popular ,universal and easy to use platform!
Thanks for the interesting chat!
December 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am
oh….Thanks for the post!
December 29th, 2009 at 8:52 am
That is a great one…..!!!Brilliant article…
January 1st, 2010 at 5:12 pm
thanks for Matt for your miracle idea…
January 1st, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Your idea is changing our world… thanks for Wordpress, and you Matt…
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
what a great blog specialist. matt, you rock!
January 7th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Great inteview!
January 7th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
It’s a nice post, a lot of hard work to build a blog like that. I'am reading it very often. Greetings from Germany!
January 7th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Happy Birthday Matt
From Jenny R
January 7th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Hope I can earn much as yours. Good job
January 8th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I don;t understand why people keep posting them, while blog owners keep deleting them in return. Why post something that you know will get deleted?
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January 13th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
It really is amazing how many spam comments Akismet blocks on the blog of ourSEO company in Lexington. If you haven't enabled it, you should get your API key and do so!
January 14th, 2010 at 8:11 am
I'm inspired by his visions, and wish I could be like matt someday! Kudos to Matt!
January 18th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Damn spammers!! nice shirt though.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Excellent work every buddy can get lots of interesting information, keep on posting this type of brilliant articles.
thanks
January 20th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
The Wordpress platform is one of the best things that has happened in the world-wide-web sphere over the last couple of years. It has enabled many people that know almost nothing about HTML coding to start making websites and even making money from blogging.
I bet one day wordpress will be sold to google or yahoo-bing for billions of $$$$!
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Very good interview, this guy is proof that with good ideas can go far!
January 25th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Word press rocks. Its been a wile since Ive been here. A lot has changed for me with the way I use word press.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Excellent work every buddy can get lots of interesting information, keep on posting this type of brilliant articles.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
great tips thanks
great
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:49 pm
nice dark pictures
February 1st, 2010 at 7:37 am
Great great interview. Although Matt answered with short answers, I actually do not care
The answers from someone like him is amazing!
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 am
ill try wearing that t-shirt too..
… but i wonder how much it cost.
February 4th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
lol. like the comment about the shirt, i totally agree.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:42 am
Agree Matt is one cluey guy.
February 13th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Interesting to hear about how wordpress was started, thanks for the read.
February 21st, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I definitely agree with the last question. I always try to incorporate a pic or video in my posts.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Matt is great! I've been doing some research on him lately and your post really helped!
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
10,000 spam comments. Now that is something
February 24th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Wordpress is really good in blogging and helpful for those who have not enough knowledge in HTML. Congratulations to Matt for Wordpress success.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:51 am
nice interview, but i would have to say it was a bit short would of been better if there was more said or if the review were to be described in more detail but thanks for providing this info.
February 28th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Wow the creater of wordpress interviewed by blueverse. That's awesome. And he is even wearing the wordpress t-shirt
March 1st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I think WordPress must dominate the market, its an amazing situation that only companies in cyber land seem to achieve if you think about off line businesses market domination is the extreme exception but for internet products and services – the ability to really corner the market is truly feasible whether it is recruitment, jobs or to books!
Regards
March 4th, 2010 at 3:56 am
I was very impressed with WordPress makers. Very many WordPress users today. WordPress is very helpful in increasing the SEO bloggers and others.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:49 am
Actually "Needs Make inventions to happen". Regards
March 9th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
I like this picture. How do you it?
March 18th, 2010 at 4:55 am
You know what? I never even thought about who came up with Wordpress! I use it everyday and never even gave it a thought. I'm going to go find out about this "Automattic" now, as I'm interested in anything he's doing. Thanks for the interview.