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Interview with WordPress's (and Tumblr's) "benevolent dictator"

Interview with WordPress's (and Tumblr's) "benevolent dictator"

Rob Beschizza
Jun 30, 2025
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Matt Mullenweg. Image: Automattic

WordPress is the swiss army knife content-management software that most of the world's media websites run on, Boing Boing included. Though open-source, the software and its ecosystem are marshalled by founding creator Matt Mullenwag, and this oversight has become controversial due to his dramatic battles with a WordPress…

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