{"id":5260,"date":"2014-06-16T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2014-06-16T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:34:04","slug":"wordpress-co-founder-matt-mullenweg-meets-local-developers-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/06\/16\/wordpress-co-founder-matt-mullenweg-meets-local-developers-enthusiasts\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg meets with local developers, enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WordPress co-founder\u00a0 recently came to Manila for the WordPress Community Meet-up in Manila attended by bloggers, developers, designers, and enthusiasts of the world\u2019s most popular web publishing platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Globe Telecom and the Philippine WordPress community led by entrepreneur and president of the Davao Bloggers Society Andrew dela Serna organized and hosted Mullenweg\u2019s third visit to the country. At The Globe Tower in Bonifacio Global City, the official meet-up venue, over 120 members of the local WordPress community gathered to learn more about Mullenweg\u2019s expertise on web technology and online publishing, including his philosophy of giving more people access to publishing and blogging through the use of an open-source software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Matt-Mullenweg-visits-PH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Matt-Mullenweg-visits-PH-593x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Mullenweg visits PH\" width=\"593\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Matt-Mullenweg-visits-PH-593x1024.jpg 593w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Matt-Mullenweg-visits-PH-174x300.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mullenweg first visited the country in 2008 for the same speaking engagement, and has since seen the growth of the local WordPress community. His recent visit is his third trip to the Philippines, which was one of the first countries to adopt WordPress. To date, WordPress is powering 22% of websites all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his partnership with Globe Telecom, Mullenweg shares, \u201cGlobe saw an opportunity as they\u2019re bringing lots of people online, and which is very complimentary with WordPress\u2019 mission, which is to democratize publishing. Globe is doing some amazing things locally by bringing more people on data plans and connecting them to the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto adds, \u201cWith our participation to the WordPress Community Meet-up, we gain deeper understanding about online platforms and best ways to interact with our digital consumers, as we commit to providing them offers that cater to their digital and fast-paced lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Mullenweg is also the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress co-founder  recently came to Manila for the WordPress Community Meet-up in Manila attended by bloggers, developers, designers, and enthusiasts of the world\u2019s most popular web publishing platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1731,1730],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matt-mullenweg","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}