WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available free of charge. The latest version is 2.0.3.

History

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The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is the official successor of ^*] and has a thriving user and developer community.

WordPress currently supports one weblog or site per installation, but there is a multi-user version available. Even with normal WordPress, you can still have more than one WordPress blog in the same server, even on the same database, by placing the files in different subdirectories.

WordPress releases are named after well known jazz musicians (e.g. Mingus). Version 1.5, released mid-February 2005 and codenamed "Strayhorn" after Billy Strayhorn, added a range of new vital features. One such is being able to manage static pages. This allows content pages to be created and managed outside the normal blog chronology and has been the first step away from being simple blog management software to becoming a full content management system. Another is the new template/theme system, which allows users to easily activate and deactivate "skins" for their sites. WordPress was also equipped with a new default template (codenamed Kubrick after the late Stanley Kubrick) designed by Michael Heilemann.

After Six Apart altered Movable Type's licensing structure in 2004, many users of that publishing system migrated to WordPress, marking the tipping point of WordPress' popularity curve.

The current version of WordPress is 2.0.3, which was officially released on June 1, 2006. WordPress is a project of Automattic.

Features

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• Generates standards-compliant XML, XHTML and CSS
• Integrated link management
• Search engine-friendly permalink structure (cruft-free)
• Extensible plugin support
• Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
• TrackBack and Pingback
• Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
• ...more features

Developers

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WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Matt and Mike Little were the co-founders of the project.

The contributing developers are

• Dougal Campbell
• Alex King
• Donncha O'Caoimh
• Michel Valdrighi

See also

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• List of content management systems
• WordPress.com

External links

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• WordPress Theme Browser
• Official WordPress Plugin Repository
• WordPress Codex (documentation wiki)
• WordPress Multi User (WPMU)
• Planet WordPress
• WordPress Planet
• WordPress product website
• WordPress IRC
• WordPress Tutorials

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