# WordPress
## English
### Etymology

From word +‎ press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast:
   He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!

### Proper noun

WordPress (uncountable)
* A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
** 2004 October 14, Steve Lafontaine, “A brief history of blogs”, in North Bay Nugget, North Bay, Ontario, page B6:In mid-1999 the first free build-your-own-web log tools began appearing and suddenly there were a large variety of easy to use blogging software to choose from including remote web log systems like Blogger a turnkey service offered by Google or stand-alone open source applications such as WordPress.
** 2010 February 25, “Doteasy Announces "US$5.95 Domain Name Registration with Free Web Hosting Services"”, in Business Wire, New York:With the free Scripts Installer included in the Unlimited Hosting plan, customers can easily install a wide range of open source applications such as Wordpress, Joomla!, Drupal, PhpBB, Mambo, Php-Nuke, Zen Cart, Magento, just to name a few.
** 2023 April 19, “Virtuozzo Simplifies WordPress-as-a-Service for All Online Businesses”, in NASDAQ OMX, New York:With the new version of Virtuozzo’s Application Platform for WordPress, any service provider can offer cost-effective, enterprise-grade WordPress hosting with automatic deployment and scaling of WordPress websites, databases, CDN, security and associated software stacks, that can be controlled easily by the business user.

#### Derived terms

* WordPresser

#### Translations

* In other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters.

### Noun

WordPress (plural WordPresses)
* (informal) A WordPress website.
** 2011, Cory Doctorow, “On Jaron Lanier’s ‘Digital Maoism’”, in John Brockman, editor, Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 160:Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses.
** 2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress®: Design and Development, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 3:According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are created every day (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/).
** 2015 August 12, Josh Baines, “Defending the Indefensible: How Blog House was Secretly Brilliant”, in Vice‎, archived from the original on 2020-11-08:Remember blogs? They were about before Tumblr turned up and turfed all but the most dedicated off their Wordpresses, and were more likely to be thematically concerned with Sarah Records or late 80s German centre backs than otherkins and sitcom reaction .gifs.
** 2017, Elliott Adams, quoting Matt Mullenweg, The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Tech Startup, San Francisco, Calif.: Startup Mixtape Media, →ISBN, page 268:WordPress.com allows us to host WordPresses from all over the world and give people a really easy place to start.
** 2023, Amara Sage, “July” (chapter 8), in Influential, London: Faber & Faber Limited, →ISBN:I mean, we met yesterday – how do I know he’s not some sociopathic stalker, or a blogger worming his way under my skin to get to the good dirt for his WordPress, or just a mean boy, a fuckboy, a softboy, a boy who’s going to ghost me after summer’s over.

### References

* ↑ Annelise Schoups (2015 November 22) “Why is WordPress Called WordPress?”, in Rewind & Capture‎, archived from the original on 2015-11-30
* ↑ Christine Tremoulet (2015 July 30) “Business, Brilliantly Episode 2 – How I Named WordPress, the Untold Story”, in Author, Coach, and Confidence Catalyst Christine Tremoulet‎, archived from the original on 2015-07-31
* ↑ Dwight Silverman (2008 January 24) “The importance of being Matt”, in Chron.com (TechBlog)‎, archived from the original on 2011-11-26

### Further reading

* WordPress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia