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WordPress
WordPress

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 free of charge.

History

The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matthew 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 “Strayhorn”.

WordPress currently supports one weblog or site per installation. A future release will support multiple weblogs from one installation. You can still have more than one WordPress blog in the same server, even on the same database.

Since v1.5, WordPress has had the ability to manage "pages" as well as simple blog posts. 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.

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Wordpress Admin Interface (Screenshot)

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
  • ...more features

Developers

WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Matt and Mike Little were the co-founders of the project.

The contributing developers are

Notable WordPress Powered Blogs

External links

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