WordPress is a very popular Open Source PHP blog software, one which we use ourselves. It comes as a something of a shock to hear that it’s founder, Matt Mullenweg is alleged to have used the WordPress website to game the search engines by containing cloaked advertising words. He was apparently paid a flat rate by Hot Nacho Inc to hide the terms in the pages. While I strongly disagree with his decision to do this, based on the information as we know it currently, I don’t think it should reflect badly on the WordPress blog application itself which is a professional quality piece of software. Google will be removing all of the questionable pages from it’s index as a result of this apparent lapse in judgement.
