Matt Mullenweg

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2026-03-23 21:57:39 GMT

If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site, including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all the things you normally do with WordPress. Hook this up to your OpenClaw, Hermes, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, whatever and have fun!
https://ma.tt/2026/03/wp-com-mcp/

2026-03-12 02:07:32 GMT

WordPress Everywhere
As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation. For the past few decades, WordPress was software you got from a cloud provider or web host, such as…
https://ma.tt/2026/03/wordpress-everywhere/

2026-02-21 00:04:11 GMT

WordPress, AI, plugins, future of software engineering
Yesterday I was on the WP-Tonic podcast, and my colleague Adrian Laboş did a great summary of the key points, which I'll share here: AI security audit wave incoming: Expect AI tools to flood WordPress core and the 70,000+ plugin ecosystem with both improvements and newly discovered security vulnerabilities, requiring infrastructure to triage at scale. Avoid vibe-coding compliance surfaces…
https://ma.tt/2026/02/wp-ai/

2025-10-13 06:37:04 GMT

Last Ball
If you appreciate golf at all, the story of how Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach without knowing he was down to his last golf ball because of arcane rules is pretty interesting.
https://ma.tt/2025/10/last-ball/

2025-09-27 03:29:05 GMT

Five Publications I’d Love on WordPress
When WordPress started in 2003, I never dreamed it would power over 40% of websites, nine times the number two CMS, but I wrote on a notecard a list of five publications I admired and respected so much I wanted them to run on WP someday. In the interest of sharing your dreams to help them come true, here they are:
https://ma.tt/2025/09/big-five/

2025-09-01 21:10:49 GMT

The New Yorker is always good, but they’re having a bit of a victory lap as they celebrate their centennial. This article on the vaunted fact-checkers is such a delight, with so many in-jokes and back references it’s hard to keep track.
When I started WordPress, I wrote down five publications that I hoped someday we’d make software so good they’d adopt it. The New Yorker is one of them. If you enjoy words that make your brain tingle, make sure to also follow…

2024-11-02 00:12:16 GMT

Disrupt Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn_HzfI_sW0 https://ma.tt/2024/11/disrupt-interview/

2024-09-26 08:25:55 GMT

WPE & Trademarks
I've been writing and talking about WP Engine a lot in the last week, but I want to be crystal clear about the core issue at play. In short, WP Engine is violating WordPress' trademarks. Moreover, they have been doing so for years. We at Automattic have been attempting to make a licensing deal with them for a very long time, and all they have done has string us along.
https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/

2024-09-25 20:07:04 GMT

Charitable Contributions
I knew going to war with Silver Lake, a $102B private equity firm, they would pull out every dirty trick to try to smear my name, do oppo research, imply I'm a mafia boss trying to extort them, etc. I have kept my personal philanthropy private until now. I would like to offer up one piece of evidence for the public to consider, which is the IRS accounting of my 501c3 charitable donations.
https://ma.tt/2024/09/charitable-contributions/