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WordPress – History of the Website Design Platform
Oct 13th
Due to the huge demand for social media integration and the importance blogs play with on-page search engine optimisation we use WordPress as a first choice platform for our website design and website redesign clients. Here is a little history about the platform.
WordPress History
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal website design publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. WordPress believe that focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.
2001 – b2 cafelog launched by Michel Valdrighi.
2003 – Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little fork b2 and create WordPress.
2004 – Plugins are introduced with Version 1.2 (Mingus).
2005 – Theme system and static pages are introduced with Version 1.5 (Strayhorn), followed by persistent caching, a new user role system, and a new backend UI in Version 2.0 (Duke).
2007 – A new UI, autosave, spell check and other new features were introduced in Version 2.1 (Ella). Widgets, better Atom feed support, and speed optimizations came out More >