Matt Mullenweg Announces End of Further Development on Wordpress

Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of the CMS we all love, has announced that further development on WordPress will be halted. This statement originated from Matts blog (ma.tt) early on March 31st. Here is an excerpt from that post:

...We will continue development on the current sub version of WordPress, which is 2.7.2, as well as continually update with any necessary security patches in the future. We will not, however, be releasing a 2.8 version of WordPress, meaning there will be no more "big updates" to the blogging software. I know many will be disappointed by this, but I feel after much deliberation between me and my co-workers that this is the best move to move the company ahead...

Personally, I myself can't believe it. I've always seen WordPress as becoming something really big in the future. I think it's even liable to say that WordPress had the potential to become a paid product, where users would have to pay to use the CMS. With such a great and expanding community, I'm somewhat disappointed in Matt for almost completely abandoning it.

Though, when I think about it, the other half of me thinks it's a good move on his part. I mean, he is only 25 years old and he's already a very successful online entrepreneur. Besides developing WordPress, Matt is also the founder of the online company Automattic. He has a great future ahead of him full of tons of different possibilities.

Ah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that even though I'm somewhat saddened at the fact that WordPress will forever stay at version 2.7, I'm also wishing Matt luck on his future jobs and projects. He really did a great thing with WordPress, and I thank him for it.

So what do you guys think? How long did it take you to realize this was an April Fool's joke? Don't lie, now.

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Cristhian Bedon had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 9:38 pm.

April fools?!

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ViciousDuck had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 9:49 pm.

The fact that most people do april fools jokes on april 1st kinda threw me off...

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ism. had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 10:26 pm.

yea I'm with VD. That was pretty random.

Dan had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 10:29 pm.

Haha, good joke. Matt would never do that, because that would be digging himself a grave.

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Benje had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:09 pm.

Wow, fuck.
I actually believed it.

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Brad had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:44 pm.

Oh my gosh. You had me. My heart had stopped.

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rizal had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 12:29 am.

damn! i thought that was reality!
great joke LOL

Phillip Gibb had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:02 am.

Noooooooooooooo.

lol

April Fools for sure

@phillipgibb

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Alex had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:03 am.

In other news today, April was extended into March.

A calendars.com spokesman said: "Since many people these days are unaware that April fool's jokes are supposed to be played only on the morning of April 1st, and make lame hoaxes before or after that time, we thought it best to officially extend April into March. These changes will be made to our 2010 calendars."

Graham Smith had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:08 am.

#kaboom

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Ralph had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:57 am.

I figured most sites/blogs will be doing April Fools jokes today, so, why not me?

Alex had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 6:00 am.

@Ralph No reason why not at all, had you posted on 1st April

WPDONE had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 10:17 am.

I almost believe that )

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Chris M had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 11:27 am.

April Fools most definitely

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T-Law had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 11:57 am.

This is really joke? If yes, that's much better. I believed

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BeyondRandom had this to say, Apr 2, 2009 @ 9:16 am.

You had me going for a while! lol Good one.

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Josh Rath had this to say, Apr 2, 2009 @ 1:07 pm.

Honestly? As soon as I read it, I checked the date. Seeing that it was posted on March 31st, I still took it as an April Fools Joke.

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Ralph had this to say, Apr 2, 2009 @ 2:14 pm.

lol, yeah, it was of course a joke.

Ruhul Amin had this to say, Apr 3, 2009 @ 1:18 am.

OMG! You totally had me... can't believe I actually believed it until I read the last line! *cough* Idiot *cough*

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Skype had this to say, Apr 3, 2009 @ 2:59 pm.

The date posted for me is March 31st, so that kind of threw me off. Hehe.

Good one Ralph.

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Germz had this to say, Apr 4, 2009 @ 12:17 pm.

o.0 Wow.
I can't believe I fell for this darn you.

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Ralph had this to say, Apr 4, 2009 @ 2:09 pm.

@Germz - lol

Jan the fish had this to say, Apr 8, 2009 @ 2:10 am.

I wouldn't be surprised if it really happened. As a coder, I know that the best CMS is the one which you create yourself. Nothing pre-made. Why? Because you can customise and you're not dependent on others' work. You can modify this or that, you can even modify the entire core without waiting for someone to release security patches. You can also customise the design based on your needs. No "two columns", "three columns" or whatever... You CAN modify things. You can move objects up and down, left and right.

That's why it's better to be a coder yourself. And also that's why it's better to create your own CMS.

I have been using WP on some of my sites which I don't have time to create CMS for. But I can tell you all that everything is easier on sites with custom-created CMS.

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Corey Freeman had this to say, Apr 9, 2009 @ 9:44 am.

Ah I thought I was going to cry! That was a really good prank. Should have checked the post date, haha.

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Wolf had this to say, Apr 9, 2009 @ 9:29 pm.

I just checked in, lol.

So it wasn't big for me. Still funny anyhow, that'd be the stupidest thing Matt would've done if he did.

ViciousDuck had this to say, Apr 11, 2009 @ 2:34 pm.

You shouldn't have told us it was an april fools joke. I'd have gone and checked the wordpress website, every major wordpress blog, twitter, digg, and dzone before I actually figured out it was a joke.

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Joey Logano Fan had this to say, Apr 14, 2009 @ 12:14 am.

Phew good thing that this is an April fools joke, you should have an update on the bottom of the post hehe.

mssmotorrd had this to say, May 3, 2009 @ 8:51 am.

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used tires had this to say, Jan 18, 2010 @ 11:11 pm.

lol wow... good thing its an April fools joke, it actually took me a bit to determine it was an April Fool's joke because of the date.

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