Nicol WistreichFeb 20

Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you’ve probably never heard of (but should)…

In the story of WordPress –the tool that powers 45% of the web, including 10s of 1000s of film sites– Mike Little is Steve Wozniak to Matt Mullenweg's Steve Jobs. Matt polished the interface, the marketing and curly quotes – while Mike added the blogroll, rebuilt the code, and added the one-click easy-upgrade that's been central to its success. But unlike Woz, Mike never had shares in Matt's $7bn business – or even a job there. He didn't know you could make a living from WordPress until he turned up at the first UK WordCamp. He hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, and isn’t known outside of old WordPress developer circles. Is this because he’s a cheerful and easy-going northerner from Stockport? Because he didn’t have a degree? Because he’s black? I don’t know. All I know for sure, is this is someone who anyone in tech, or who uses WordPress, should know about.

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Show threadMichelle HughesFeb 25

@nic

This link seems to go to the activity pub representation of the article. Is there a link to a more human-consumable version of the article?

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@MegaMichelle @nic I think that's the same problem I reported a while ago to @nicol, I think you must have some cache plugin that's conflicting with the WordPress ap plugin.
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Show threadNicol WistreichFeb 26

@liaizon @MegaMichelle @nic yeh - and maybe it happens whenever I update the page (which happens when I approve new Fediverse reactions / comments - which I’ve started to try doing in blocks.

It’s probably also the caching plugin that is stripping the basic formatting from new posts.. will try to investigate on another WP.. maybe some caching plugins are better with the AP plugin than others (?). But without it I think the site would have fallen down by now!

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@nicol I won't tag @pfefferle here to not annoy him but it seems maybe when you have a chance to look its something that really needs to be better doccumented there anyway
Show threadNicol WistreichFeb 26
@liaizon I would love to join a chat space for people using his plugin to share advice / tips / etc as I often end up pinging him too. there’s the GitHub and there’s here but I don’t know of any others.. (ie something similar to Mattermost at chat.civicrm.org)