Mike Little

English web developer (born 1962)

Mike Little
Mike Little at Young Rewired State 2012
Born	(1962-05-12) 12 May 1962 (age 62)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Stockport School
Occupation	Web developer
Known for	WordPress
Website	mikelittle.org

Mike Little (born 12 May 1962) is an English web developer and writer. He is the co-founder of the free and open source web software WordPress along with Matt Mullenweg.^[1]

Biography

Mike Little was born in 1962 to a Nigerian father who was a musician and an English mother in England.^[2]^[3] He was educated at Stockport School.^[3]

In 2003, Little and Matt Mullenweg started working on a project in which they built on b2/cafelog and later named it WordPress, releasing the first version on 27 May 2003.^[1]^[4]

In June 2013, Little was awarded the SAScon's "Outstanding Contribution to Digital" award for his part in co-founding and developing WordPress.^[5]^[6]

Bibliography

Douglass, Robert T.; Little, Mike; Smith, Jared W. (2006).Building Online Communities With Drupal, PhpBB, and WordPress

References

^ ^a ^b "History". WordPress Codex. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ Simpson, Mollie. "The Stockport man who powered half the internet". The Mill.
^ ^a ^b "Mike Little | Interviews".
^ "How a Stockport developer helped create the world's biggest online publishing phenomenon – for free". Prolific North. 4 February 2013.
^ "Unsung Internet Visionary to be Honoured at SASCON". SAScon. 17 May 2013. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014.
^ "Internet Visionary Honoured". Cheshire Border Independent Newspaper. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.