Saturday January 01, 2011, 23:17

WordPress

WordPress is a program used for blog publishing application and designing websites, powered by PHP and MySQL. Firstly released on May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as an Open Source project. What does it mean? WordPress is used by hundreds of people nearly all over the world, and you do not have to pay for a license fee.

Nowadays WordPress is told to be the one of the largest self-hosted tool used for blogging every day. Thanks to the WordPress platform Web Designers and Web Developers may easily create fast and user friendly websites.
You can download this software on the official WordPress website. All you need is a webhost with minimum requirements and a little bit of technical knowledge. WordPress is entirely configurable to you and it can be used in many aspects connected with creating and designing websites.

Why the WordPress is so useful?

You surely would like to know why the WordPress is so helpful. Simply because it started as a blogging system, but has evolved as a full content management system. Thanks to plugins, different themes and widgets it turned to become even much more than just a system. It is a very useful tool only limited by your invention, imagination and creativity. This is how you can connect with the rest of the world. It has a web template system which means it uses a template processor. Users of the WordPress system are able to arrange and re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code.

History of the WordPress

WordPress wasn't the first invention this kind, but it is the fresh one, unique and more stable product, which focuses on web standards and users expectations. It's precursor was a publishing system called b2/cafelog, commonly known as a b2 or just cafelog from 2001. It was written by Michel Valdrighi in 2003 as a joint effort between him and Matt Mullenweg. It's name was suggested by their friend ? Christine Selleck. WordPress has few awards on its account, for example in 2007 it won a prestige Pact Open Source CSM Award and in 2009 WordPress occurred to be the best winning another Open Source SMS Award. It was released several times and most of releases were named after jazz musician stars.

WordPress

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WordPress

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