Matt Mullenweg
@matt on WordPress.org and Slack
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Contribution History
Matt Mullenweg’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Marketing Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Photos Team
- Plugin Developer
- Theme Developer
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Suggested 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit: A Faster Path to Your First Core Contribution, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It would be cool to figure out something Torrent-like where if anyone on the local… -
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit: A Faster Path to Your First Core Contribution, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Awesome! After it gets some more usage, please put this on /news, it deserves a… -
Wrote a comment on the post Requests for Automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Okay get ready, we're going to have a lot of Wapuus running all over the… -
Wrote a new post, Requests for Automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Howdy, I wanted to spin up a thread for anyone to request a look at… -
Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Themes.
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Wrote a comment on the post Elevating Individuals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Where has our focus and work on recruiting and empowering contributors encouraged human-driven solutions toward… -
Wrote a comment on the post Elevating Individuals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It is a cause or symptom that, in delegating responsibility to teams and committees from… -
Wrote a new post, Elevating Individuals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Posting here since it spans +make.wordpress.org/design/ , +make.wordpress.org/community/ +make.wordpress.org/marketing/ +make.wordpress.org/meta/ . My request: Let's go… -
Wrote a new post, Elevating Individuals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Posting here since it spans +make.wordpress.org/design/ , +make.wordpress.org/community/ +make.wordpress.org/marketing/ +make.wordpress.org/meta/ . My request: Let's go… -
Wrote a comment on the post Where are we going?, on the site Translate WordPress:
BTW, I'm not suggesting local teams go away! I've been thinking a lot about this,… -
Wrote a comment on the post Markdown now available on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Let's get a post about this and usage stats so far up on /news. -
Wrote a new post, Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's nice that plugins can hook into the left nav wherever they want, but there's… -
Wrote a comment on the post Some provocative AI thoughts, on the site Make WordPress.org:
The Markdown stuff shipped last week: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2026/03/03/markdown-now-available-on-wordpress-org/ Let's make sure we update old threads and… -
Wrote a new post, Polyglots in an Age of AI, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm seeing a lot of projects use https://crowdin.com/ What can we learn and adapt from… -
Wrote a comment on the post Developer documentation restored., on the site Make WordPress Core:
How would you compare the state of these docs to say what a service like… -
Wrote a new post, Where are we going?, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'd love some thoughts from the team on what we should be building towards, given… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I highly doubt the margins of hosts will support any AI inference costs or offering.… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
If we need to push, that's fine; this is an important moment for us and… -
Wrote a new post, Let’s Slack Better, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I've heard WCUS, WCEU, and WCAsia have separate Slack groups rather than using channels within… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So I'm a "no" but not for the reasons you might think. Let's think about… -
Wrote a comment on the post Some provocative AI thoughts, on the site Make WordPress.org:
So we should immediately make every URI available with a vary/markdown equivalent. CloudFlare just shipped… -
Wrote a comment on the post Right now, we discourage product-specific…, on the site Make WordPress Community:
I guess one distinction could be to say people can only talk about what functionality… -
Wrote a new post, Right now, we discourage product-specific…, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Right now, we discourage product-specific talks at meetups or WordCamps. Even though most people use… -
Wrote a comment on the post Marketing Lessons from WordCamp Asia, on the site Make WordPress Community:
I would love for you to talk to people who have marketed other successful, similar… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
What can we learn from OpenRouter and apply here? Very interested in the ability to… -
Wrote a comment on the post Some provocative AI thoughts, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Why WordPress? * Open Source, which means you're never locked in, your data is portable,… -
Wrote a new post, Some provocative AI thoughts, on the site Make WordPress.org:
WordPress.org doesn't have to care about ads. So we should immediately make every URI available… -
Mentioned in [61459] on WordPress SVN:
General: Increase the minimum supported version of PHP to 7.4. -
Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is so exciting to see, really a new era for WordPress. -
Wrote a new post, WordPress 6.9 “Gene”, on the site WordPress News:
WordPress 6.9, code-named "Gene," brings major upgrades to how teams collaborate and create. The Notes… -
Wrote a comment on the post The Plugin Check Plugin now creates automatic security reports after each plugin update, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
So excited for this progress. :) Where this ends up will be a massive upgrade… -
Wrote a comment on the post Reporting a Misappropriation of Funds, on the site Make WordPress Community:
To help prevent this from happening again, WPCS will now send Global Sponsorship Grants in… -
Wrote a new post, I don’t want to get…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I don't want to get into the argument about whether these localizations should exist at… -
Mentioned in [60717] on WordPress SVN:
Database: Add `type_status_author` index for the posts table. -
Created a topic, All these years later, Jetpack is the iCloud for my WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It does so much advanced functionality effortlessly to… -
Posted a reply to Native IPv6 Support for api.wordpress.org, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We'll work on this, sorry it hasn't happened yet. -
Mentioned in [60666] on WordPress SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Move Hello Dolly plugin to directory structure. -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: PHPStan in the WordPress core development workflow, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm a big fan of PHPStan and agree it can progressively and thoughtfully drive better… -
Mentioned in [60428] on WordPress SVN:
Pings/Trackbacks: Use HTTPS for services that now support it. -
Mentioned in [60421] on WordPress SVN:
Pings/Trackbacks: Use HTTPS for services that now support it. -
Mentioned in [60411] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Normalize all space characters to a space in `sanitize_file_name()`. -
Mentioned in [60399] on WordPress SVN:
sanitize_file_name(): Normalize all space characters to a space. -
Created a topic, Does what it says on the tin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
And does it quite well! As an enhancement I'd love to … -
Reopened ticket #50161 on Core Trac:
Slow query in WP_Posts_List_Table, no way to avoid with filters/hooks -
Closed ticket #63585 on Core Trac:
Common MacOS unicode characters in filenames break -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2025
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Prioritizing CampTix Improvements for a Better Organizer and Attendee Experience, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Thank you for the follow-up here! I've been thinking a lot about data-driven feedback loops… -
Created ticket #63585 on Core Trac:
Common MacOS unicode characters in filenames break
Developer
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Admin IP Watcher
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Advanced Caching
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Blogtimes
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Cache Images
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Firefox Counter
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Google Adsense for Feeds
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Hello Dolly
Active Installs: 600,000+
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Matt's Community Tags
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No WWW
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Notifly
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Protect old posts
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Random Redirect
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Staticize Reloaded
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WYSIWYG Editing
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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Active Installs: 6+ million
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bbPress
Active Installs: 100,000+
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HyperDB
Active Installs: 10+
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Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
Active Installs: 3+ million
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Tida Quotes
Active Installs: Less than 10
