--- title: Matt Mullenweg Live In Singapore date: 2014-06-06 09:09:37 permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2014/06/06/matt-mullenweg-live-in-singapore/ author: Lester Chan categories: - Event - WordPress tags: - Matt Mullenweg - Singapore - WordPress --- [Matt Mullenweg](http://ma.tt/) who is the co-founder of [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) and founder of [Automattic](http://automattic.com/) stop by Singapore on the 4th June 2014 as part of his [Summer Tour](http://ma.tt/2014/05/summer-tour/) which includes cities like Seoul, Jakarta, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington and Auckland. I knew Matt since b2 days but never had a chance to met him till he came to Singapore! And of course, a picture with him is compulsory! [![Matt Mullenweg & I](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3909/14162193908_b4cd1ce784_c.jpg "Matt Mullenweg & I")](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3909/14162193908_ae398f90a4_o.jpg "Matt Mullenweg & I") WordPress celebrated its 11th birthday last week and it has come a long way since it’s first release on the 27th May 2003! And yes, I have been [developing plugins for WordPress](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/) since day one (before WordPress 1.2 it is known as hack). Throughout these 11 years, I developed a total of 21 plugins (out of which 19 of them are still being maintained) and it accumulated a total of 11.4 million downloads and counting! Thanks to the team at [Singapore PHP User Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/sghypertextpreprocessors/) for helping Michael Cheng and I out in hosting him. You guys and girls rock! Shout-out to the team: [Alarice Soh](https://www.facebook.com/alaricesoh), [Aloysius Alaric Soh](https://www.facebook.com/Lloys), [Anna Filippova](https://www.facebook.com/filippova.anna), [Chinmay Pendharkar](https://www.facebook.com/chinpen), [Fazli Mansor](https://www.facebook.com/fazlimansor), [Hazrul Azhar Jamari](https://www.facebook.com/abanghazrul), [KimSia Sim](https://www.facebook.com/kimsia.sim), [Rachelle Yee](https://www.facebook.com/rachelle.yee), [Robert Sim](https://www.facebook.com/brokenshardz), [Sam Mauris Yong](https://www.facebook.com/sam.yong), [Sayanee Basu](https://www.facebook.com/sayanee) and [Valentine Chua](https://www.facebook.com/vchua). Also a shout-out to our special guest from Japan, [Mayuko Moriyama](https://www.facebook.com/mayukojpn), who is one of the organizer for [WordCamp Tokyo](http://2014.tokyo.wordcamp.org/). [![Awesome Team](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2915/14347215632_5963c1a268_c.jpg "Awesome Team")](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2915/14347215632_e3ec2302da_o.jpg "Awesome Team") Last but not least, special thanks to [Microsoft Singapore](https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/) for the venue and food sponsor and [Automattic](http://automattic.com/) for the SWAG! Do checkout the tweets and Facebook posts with the hashtag #MattInSG: [\#MattInSG Tweets](https://twitter.com/search?q=MattInSG) / [\#MattInSG Facebook’s Posts](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/mattinsg). Here are the photos that we took for the pre-event and the event itself: [![A](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5592/14368970213_57efa8cd6a_c.jpg "A Flickr gallery by Lester Chan (@lesterchan)")](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterchan/albums/72157645062355113 "A Flickr gallery by Lester Chan (@lesterchan)") And here is the full video for the event: