Founder of a listed tool

Matt Mullenweg

Co-founder, WordPress, named behind the WordPress listing on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, WordPress

Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress in 2003 with Mike Little, forking the b2/cafelog blogging software after its developer abandoned it, and released it under the GNU General Public License. He later founded Automattic. He briefly worked at CNET, which agreed to let him spend time on WordPress development.

What Matt builds

  • WordPress B · CMS & website publishing

    WordPress is an open-source content management system that its owner hosts. Agents create, revise and publish posts, pages and media through the built-in REST API, WP-CLI or the MCP Adapter, a canonical plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

    Co-founder, WordPress, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

Questions

Who is Matt Mullenweg?

Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress in 2003 with Mike Little, forking the b2/cafelog blogging software after its developer abandoned it, and released it under the GNU General Public License. He later founded Automattic. He briefly worked at CNET, which agreed to let him spend time on WordPress development.

What does WordPress.org (open-source project) make?

Anchor Terminal lists WordPress from WordPress.org (open-source project). WordPress is an open-source content management system that its owner hosts. Agents create, revise and publish posts, pages and media through the built-in REST API, WP-CLI or the MCP Adapter, a canonical plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

How are Matt's tools graded?

WordPress is graded B, 64.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

Sources (4)

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

For companies

Do agents find, use and choose your tools?

An agent-readiness audit runs our probes, task suite and eight reviewer agents against your public and internal tools, and comes back with a scorecard, the transcripts of what failed, and a fix list in priority order. From $2,500, re-run included. We never take payment to move a rank. We do help companies earn one.