WordPress - Definition and Overview

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 (e.g. Mingus). The current version of WordPress is 1.2.2. The next version will be 1.5

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.

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 (http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Features)

Developers

WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren (http://boren.nu) and Matt Mullenweg (http://photomatt.net). Matt and Mike Little (http://zed1.com/b2/) were the co-founders of the project.

The contributing developers are

• Dougal Campbell (http://dougal.gunters.org/)
• Alex King (http://alexking.org)
• Donncha O'Caoimh (http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/)
• Michel Valdrighi (http://intraordinary.com/)

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)
• Support forums (http://wordpress.org/support/)
• WordPress Planet (http://planet.wordpress.org/)