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WordPress is a Web publishing system (a.k.a. content management system) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, especially Weblogs. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge.
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 releases are named after well-known jazz musicians (e.g. Mingus). The current version of WordPress is 1.5.
WordPress currently supports one weblog or site per installation. A future release will support multiple weblogs from one installation. Another fork of the original b2 program, b2evolution, supports multiple weblogs per installation.
Features
- Generates standards-compliant XML, XHTML and CSS
- Integrated link management
- Nice-looking permalinks
- Extensible plugin support
- Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
- TrackBack and Pingback
- Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
Developers
WordPress development is led by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
The contributing developers are
Notable WordPress Powered Blogs
- Jimmy Wales' Blog
- Matt's Blog
- BlogSome - a free WordPress hosting service
- The Apple Blog
External links
- WordPress product website
- Official German WordPress portal
- WordPress documentation wiki
- WordPress FAQ
- Download page
- Support forums