What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites.^[5] WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.^[6][7]

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg^[1] as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.^[8]

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• 1 Features
  • 1.1 Themes
  • 1.2 Plugins
  • 1.3 Widgets
  • 1.4 Multi-user and multi-blogging
  • 1.5 Mobile
  • 1.6 Other features of note
• 2 History
  • 2.1 Awards
  • 2.2 Removal of sponsored themes
  • 2.3 Releases
• 3 Future
• 4 Vulnerabilities
• 5 Development and support
  • 5.1 Key developers
  • 5.2 WordCamp developer and user conferences
  • 5.3 Support
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links