Wordpress

What is Wordpress?

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

Future of Wordpress

Matt Mullenweg: “I see the future of WordPress as a web operating system”. WordPress now powers well over 17% of the top million sites, which according to All Things D, equates to over 70 million sites. So where is WordPress heading? Well, with over 13000 plugins, WordPress is already more than just a basic CMS – it’s a system capable of powering a vast array of different projects!