The Development of WordPress – From The Start
Wordpress is a personal publishing blog-like software. It focuses on web standards and usability. WordPress is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of the lead developer Matt Mullenweg. This script is distributed under the GNU License.
Some of the features of WordPress are a templating system, integrated link management, search engine friendly permalink structure, pluggin support, multiple and nested categories for articles, trackback and pingback, typographic filters for proper formatting and text styling, static pages, multiple authors, can store a list of users who visit your site, can block site visitors by IP address, tag support. B2/Cafelog was the precursor to WordPress. B2 was estimated to be on only 2000 blogs in May 2003! WordPress first opened in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. WordPress began to get more popular in 2004.
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