WordPress

WordPress is a web design website that is designed to make websites with modern styles for users, organizations and businesses. It is a web content management system founded by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg in 2003. WordPress is primarily written in the PHP language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.https://wordpress.org/about/
Its system is available as free and open-source software.https://wordpress.org/download/ WordPress is among the most popular content management systems and it was used by 43.1% of the top 10 million websites as of December 2023.https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all/
==Overview==
WordPress is a web design service where users can create their own websites and simply design their pages and objects within pages. In contrast to web hosting services, websites that use WordPress can have their own domain, subdomains, or subdirectories within domains and subdomains.
WordPress has a web template system using a template processor. Its architecture is a front controller, routing all requests for non-static URIs to a single PHP file that parses the URI and identifies the target page. This allows support for more human-readable permalinks.https://wpshout.com/wordpress-front-controller/
==History==
WordPress was originally the successor of b2/cafelog, whose web design was similar to it is today. As the development of b2/cafelog slowed down, Matt Mullenweg began pondering the idea of forking b2/cafelog and the new features that he would want in a new CMS, which was in a blog post written on January 24th, 2003. Mike Little, a professional developer, became the first to comment on the blog post expressing interest to contribute.https://web.archive.org/web/20230208162200/https://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/ On May 27th, 2023, the first version of WordPress was released with a version of 0.70 and was designed to aim at blogs for users.https://web.archive.org/web/20230201163039/https://wordpress.org/news/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/
In 2004, it became popular after the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart, a software company. As of May 2021, WordPress is used by 64.8% of all the websites whose content management system is known and 41.4% of the top 10 million websites.
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