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.

Contents

1 History 2 Features 3 Developers 4 Notable WordPress Powered Blogs 5 External links

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.

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/)

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