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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.

1 History

The name "Wordpress" was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt 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. 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)

2 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 PingbackPingback is a method for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software, like WordPress support automatic pin
• Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text

3 Developers

WordPress development is led by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

The contributing developers are

• Dougal Campbell
• Alex King
• Michel Valdrighi
• Ryan Boren

4 Notable WordPress Powered Blogs

• Jimmy Wales' Blog
• Matt's Blog

5 External links

• WordPress product website
• Official German WordPress portal
• WordPress documentation wiki
• WordPress FAQ
• Download page