About these interviews
These interviews are source material for Milestones: The Story of WordPress, a book on the history and development of WordPress. They have been carried out with people involved with the WordPress project from its inception over fifteen years ago, and those who have been instrumental in shaping WordPress itself, the wider project, and the community.
The book is available on Github.
Interviews
- Aaron Campbell (44:43) Tags: wordpress 3.6, post formats, core plugins
- Adii Pienaar (52:42) Tags: themes, premium themes, gpl, commercial
- Alex King (92:05) Tags: plugins, b2, performance, commercialization, gpl, open source
- Andrea Rennick (45:50) Tags: movable tyle, licensing, wordpress mu, community,
- Andrew Nacin (148:59) Tags: copress, wp-hackers, multisite merge, wordpress 3.0, taxonomies, wordpress.com, release leads, leadership, wordpress 3.5, media, auto-updates, akismet, audrey capital, gpl
- Andy Skelton (73:19) Tags: widgets, wordpress.com, wordpress.com stats, batcache, data collection, privacy, jetpack
- Anil Dash (92:39) Tags: movable type
- Brad Williams (30:39) Tags: wordcamps, wordcamp central, wordcamp guidelines
- Brian Gardner (28:25) Tags: themes, premium themes, gpl, commercial
- Bryan Veloso (58:42) Tags: shuttle, automattic
- Chris J Davis (64:28) Tags: shuttle, themes, habari
- Chris Pearson (41:19) Tags: thesis, gpl, themes
- Collis Ta'eed (33:01) Tags: gpl, licensing, envato, wordcamps, commercial themes
- Cory Miller (53:31) Tags: gpl, licensing, commercial themes
- Craig Hartel (56:55) Tags: community, wiki, codex
- Donncha O'Caoimh (37:21) Tags: wordpress.com, automattic
- Donncha O'Caoimh (52:03) Tags: wpmu, wordpress multisite
- Dougal Campbell (52:55) Tags: b2, xml-rpc, contributors, biography
- Francois Planque (41:14) Tags: b2, b2 evolution
- Ian Stewart (40:50) Tags: themes, gpl, licensing, theme design, commercial themes
- Jacob Santos (57:08) Tags: wp-hackers, inline documentation, community, documentation
- Jason Santa Maria (35:48) Tags: logo, redesign, wordpress 2.5
- Jeffrey Pearce (19:21) Tags: wordpress 3.0, menus
- Jen Mylo (77:00) Tags: crazyhorse, design, open source design, wp-admin
- Joen Asmussen (56:48) Tags: shuttle, user interface, design
- Jonas Luster (65:27) Tags: wordpress inc, wordpress foundation, hot nacho
- Joseph Scott (36:40) Tags: theme directory, xml-rpc
- Mark Ghosh (57:15) Tags: weblogtoolscollection, community, sponsored themes
- Mark Jaquith (76:55) Tags: security, legacy branch, debian, version numbers, data collection, privacy, wordpress 3.0, multisite, commit access
- Mark Jaquith (119:56) Tags: taxonomies, leadership, wordcamps, crazyhorse, gpl, automattic, jetpack, akismet, commercial plugins
- Mark Jaquith (62:44) Tags: movable type, object oriented, wordpress 2.7, happy cog, crazyhorse, inline documentation
- Mark Riley (57:24) Tags: support, automattic
- Mark Riley (53:53) Tags: automattic
- Matt Miklic (Thomas) (80:41) Tags: crazyhorse, mp6
- Matt Mullenweg (38:26) Tags: biography
- Matt Mullenweg (49:12) Tags: biography, blogging, movable type, textpattern
- Matt Mullenweg (112:59) Tags: automattic, jetpack, akismet, trademarks, wordpress foundation
- Matt Mullenweg (41:44) Tags: themes, premium themes, gpl, commercial
- Matt Mullenweg (107:28) Tags: development process, version control, bbpress, backpress, wp-hackers, commit access, lead developer, core plugins, release cycle, taxonomies, multisite, wordpress mu, hierarchy, release leads,
- Matt Mullenweg (52:10) Tags: movable type, free software, shuttle, happy cog, bdfl
- Michael Heilemann (51:30) Tags: shuttle, themes, habari
- Mika Epstein (65:40) Tags: plugins, community, support, support forums, plugin review
- Mike Adams (32:41) Tags: automattic
- Mike Adams (38:50) Tags: structure, codex, community
- Mike Little (92:30) Tags: b2, php, fork, free software, gpl
- Mike Little (102:23) Tags: b2, stockport, open source, free software, wp-config.php
- Naoko Takano (34:20) Tags: internationalization, localization
- Noel Jackson (50:26) Tags: automattic, commercial themes, gpl
- Om Malik (49:18) Tags: automattic, blogging
- Owen Winkler (96:15) Tags: habari
- Peter Westwood (69:01) Tags: themes, akismet, taxonomies, object oriented, governance
- Phil Black (32:04) Tags: automattic, investment
- Rich Bowen (56:30) Tags: habari
- Ron Rennick (40:02) Tags: multisite, wordpress mu, menus
- Ryan Boren (78:18) Tags: wordpress.com, automattic, media
- Ryan Boren (98:54) Tags: b2, rewriting, taxonomies, internationalization, themes, habari, plugin system, smarty, movable type, license, gpl, codebase
- Ryan Boren (50:06) Tags: development process, themes, automattic, wordpress.com
- Samuel "Otto" Wood (79:37) Tags: support forums, mailing list, data collection, smileys, internationalization, audrey capital, wordpress.org, codex, plugins, theme review
- Scott Merrill (48:02) Tags: habari, codex
- Toni Schneider (107:21) Tags: automattic, business, wordpress.com
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