WordPress

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Template:Infobox Software 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. It has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times to date. The latest version is 2.0.2.

1 History
2 Features
3 Developers
4 See also
5 External links

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History

The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog 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 2.0.2, which was officially released on March 10, 2006. WordPress is a project of Automattic.

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