Wordpress Guide 101: What is Wordpress?

WordPress Guide 101: What is WordPress?

WordPress is a publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, usability, and web standards. WordPress is both FREE and Priceless at the same time. WordPress is an Open Source project.

A Little Information about WordPress
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code enhancing the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool used by hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by millions of people every day.

A Little History about WordPress
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. By focusing on user experience and web standards WordPress created a tool different from anything else.

2005 was a very exciting year for WordPress, as it saw the release of 1.5 version (introduced themes) which was downloaded over 900,000 times, the start of hosted service WordPress.com to expand WP’s reach, the founding of Automattic by several core members of the WP team, and finally the release of version 2.0.

In 2006, WordPress had 1,545,703 downloads, in 2007 a total of 3,816,965 downloads! There were 191,567 downloads of 371 unique plugins in 2006. In 2007 there were 2,845,884 downloads (15x growth) of 1,384 plugins.

2006 saw the introduction of the first WordCamp in San Francisco.

In 2007 a regular release schedule, putting out major feature releases roughly every 3-4 months, or three times a year.

There are now dozens of WordCamps around the world, from Vancouver to Dallas to Milan, Italy.

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