An interesting piece of WordPress history for those of you who like trivia. As I’ve been archiving WordPress history, I came across an interesting series of posts on Mike Little’s blog. In April 2003 (about a month before the launch of WordPress 0.7), Mike was issued with a cease and desist notice from a company called LinksManager.com. The company owns the trademarked name “LinksManager” and wasn’t too happy about Mike’s b2 Links Manager add-on. A back and forth ensued, in which the LinksManager.com guy lawyered up, and Mike changed the name of his add-on to b2Links. This solved the problem and everyone was happy.
Today I did an interview with Mike about the early days of WordPress and I asked him about the Cease and Desist. He pointed out that 10 years on and LinksManager.com not only runs its website on WordPress, but has a WordPress plugin 🙂
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