10 years glorious journey of WordPress

Happy Birthday WordPress WordPress was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg Mike Little Powering over 60 million websites WordPress (17%) I Others (83%) I 22 May 2004 Added support of plugins; which 1.2 Mingus same identification headers are used unchanged in WordPress releases as of 2011. 17 Feb 2005 1.5 Strayhorn Added a range of vital features, It was also equipped with a new default template. Added rich editing, better administration tools, image uploading, faster posting, improved import system, fully overhauled the back end, and various improvements to plugin developers. 31 December 2005 2.0 Duke 2007 Won a Packt Open Source CMS Award Corrected security issues, rede- signed interface, enhanced editing tools and improved content management options.[ 22 January 2007 2.1 Ella Added widget support for templates, updated Atom feed support, and speed optimiza- 16 May 2007 2.2 Getz tions. 24 September 2007 Added native tagging support, new taxonomy system for cate- gories, and easy notification of updates, fully supports Atom 1.0, with the publishing proto- col, and some much needed security fixes. 2.3 Dexter 29 March 2008 version 2.5 added two releases 2.5 Brecker worth of new code. 15 July 2008 Added new features that made 2.6 Tyner WordPress a more powerful CMS 11 December 2008 Added new features that made 2.7 Coltrane WordPress a more powerful CMS 2009 won the Packt best Open Source CMS Awards 10 June 2009 Had improvements in speed, added automatic installing of themes from within administra- 2.8 Baker tion interface, introduces the CodePress editor for syntax highlighting and a redesigned widget interface. 19 December 2009 Added global undo, built-in image editor, batch plugin updating, and many less visible tweaks. 2.9 Carmen 2010 Won the Hall of Fame CMS category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. 17 June 2010 Added a new theme application programming interfaces (API); the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU, creating the new multi-site functionality, a new default theme called 3.0 Thelonious "Twenty Ten", and many less visible tweaks. 2011 Won the Open Source Web App of the Year Award at The Critters. 23 February 2011 Added the Admin Bar. It pro- 3.1 Reinhardt vides easy access to many criti- cal functions. Includes internal linking abilities, a newly stream- lined writing interface, and many other changes. 4 July 2011 Focused on making WordPress faster and lighter. Released only four months after version 3.1, reflecting the growing speed of development in the WordPress community. 3.2 Gershwin 12 December 2011 3.3 Sonny Focused on making WordPress Friendlier for beginners and tablet computer users. 13 June 2012 Focused on improvements to theme customization, Twitter integration and several minor changes. 3.4 Green Present Version 11 December 2012 Support for the Retina Display, color picker, new theme: Twenty Twelve, improved image work- 3.5 Elvin Flow. Future release May 2013 New theme: Twenty Thirteen; 3.6 Admin Enhancements - Post Formats UI Update, Menus UI improvements, Revisions Update, Autosave and Post Locking