> He really hasn't advocated for much

Like him or hate him, he grew WordPress to be one of the most popular open source projects of all time. It seems fair to call him a key advocate.

WordPress is still GPL licensed.

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legitster an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> WordPress is still GPL licensed.

Only because it's forced to be because it in turn was a fork of a previous GPL license.

It should be noted that Mullenweg has regularly weaponized the GPL license in the past - using it to take out other companies in the ecosystem like in their fight against Thesis.

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larodi 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LLMs will surely fix this ubiquitous position of WP very soon.

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hungryhobbit an hour ago | parent [-]

Doubtful. Code isn't what keeps OSS projects going: people do.

Claude can reproduce Wordpress with enough tokens. Claude cannot reproduce the community of maintainers, plug-in authors, users reporting bugs, etc. that is what any real user of Wordpress actually wants (if they don't want buggy, out of date software with security risks).

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jmathai an hour ago | parent [-]

I think a large % of Wordpress usage is for simple websites that are better served by tools simpler than Wordpress. I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience.

	▲	joeguilmette 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ironically, the antiquated model of a bunch of source code and a database sitting on a computer is something coding agents really like. WordPress and a nice page builder with MCP is actually a joy to use, and the absolutely enormous catalog of plugins that are easily extensible and endlessly modifiable makes it so easy to work with when building via agent. Having worked with WordPress for over a decade, I find it hilarious that WooCommerce (the bane of my existence that has inexplicably paid my rent for a gigantic chunk of my adult life) is easier to use and better positioned for building with AI than Shopify. The future is actually pretty bright for WordPress I think.