WordPress.org
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Top Founders 7 
the Knowledge Project 3 
How I Built This 3 
We Live to Build 2 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 2 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
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Mullenweg clarifies he has always personally owned and controlled WordPress.org
“WordPress.org has always been me personally.”
Mullenweg: IRS denied original application for WordPress.org nonprofit status
“And we applied for that originally, and it was denied by the IRS. So we actually weren't able to put WordPress.org or the software itself under the nonprofit.”
Mullenweg details the complex commercial and non-commercial WordPress trademark licenses
“And so kind of the compromise is that the foundation would kind of, ah, own the trademark and license it out for non-commercial purposes. I had a license to run WordPress.org, you know, because obviously I need that, and then Automatic would retain the commerc…”
Mullenweg acknowledges judge reversed Advanced Custom Fields plugin repository takeover
“This is controversial and actually the, they actually got a preliminary injection. So the judge said reverse this. So this has all been reversed by the way.”
Mullenweg accidentally invented an SEO spam technique using hidden CSS links
“And I unintentionally invented a new way to spam. I basically was able to use some code called CSS to have the code on the website, but if you visited it in a browser, it would be invisible. But if you visited as a bot, like Google, it would look like the word…”