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 without charge.

History

The name "Wordpress" was suggested by Christine Selleck (http://www.bigpinkcookie.com/), a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg (http://photomatt.net). 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. The current version of WordPress is 1.2.1.

WordPress currently supports one weblog or site per installation, but multiple installations are trivial. A future release will support multiple weblogs from one installation. WordPress is fully XHTML and CSS compliant.

Wordpress Admin Interface (Screenshot)

Features

Generates standards-compliant XML and XHTML
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 (http://photomatt.net) and Mike Little (http://zed1.com/b2/).

The contributing developers are

Dougal Campbell (http://dougal.gunters.org/)
Alex King (http://alexking.org)
Michel Valdrighi (http://intraordinary.com/)
Ryan Boren (http://boren.nu)

Notable WordPress Powered Blogs

Jimmy Wales' Blog (http://blog.jimmywales.com/)
Matt's Blog (http://photomatt.net/)

External links

WordPress product website (http://wordpress.org/)
Official German WordPress portal (http://wordpress.de)
WordPress documentation wiki (http://wiki.wordpress.org/)
WordPress FAQ (http://faq.wordpress.net/)
Download page (http://wordpress.org/download)

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