Wordpress 10th Anniversary

first created 27th of MAY 2003 WORDPRESS.COM WWORDPRESS.ORG total websites Version 3.5 downloaded more than 66083694 18000000 118 010 IOI0I01O 86000 000 estimated total number of Wordpress websites in existence Meetup Joomla 100 Sharepoint 80 Drupal 60 40 2005 2007 2009 2011 2012 530 Meetups all over the world to celebrate Wordpress' 10th birthday Most popular CMS on planet Earth (based on Google Trends CMS Comparison) as of MAY 2013 10 th WORDPRESS IW ANNIVERSARY W WORDPRESS.ORG WORDPRESS.COM where you can download the open source CMS Wordpress. It is free to use and installs on your own self-hosted platform a Software as Service (Saas), Wordpress powered website hosting platform Requires some technical skills Easiest way to get a Wordpress website as quickly as possible with no technical skills required Hosting account and domain name absolutely required; can easily set up on most hosting accounts via the hosting control panel Wordpress.com automatically takes care of hosting; domain name includes .wordpress.com' extension Complete control over your website Extremely limited ability to customize the appearance of your website; choices limited to available themes No acces to Plugins Can install any plugins you wih for extra functionality, including free and premium plugins Can install any themes you wish. Premium themes from $35 Premium themes are mostly more expensive than.org, self-hosted from $68+ Ability to expand to eCommerce, membership websites, Backups are managed automatically directories, classifieds websites and much more! 5 Elements of the Wordpress CMS Themes Plugins Pages Posts Widgets History of the Wordpress CMS 2010 2011 2. 3. Wordpress Websites you should check out Notable Wordpress Users HARVARDgazette CNPolitics TE TechCrunch http://limecanvas.com http://wpcandy.com http://wordpress.org/news/ http://wpbeginner.com http://yoast.com http://www.wprecipes.com http://wp.tutsplus.com LIVESTRONG GE) GE Reports The Mozilla Blog FOUNDATION MARTHA LIFE+ TINE RYAN SEACREST3 Sources of Info: http://bit.ly/12YroQi http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/ JOHN GRISHAM Kobe Bryant RUSSELL BRAND THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE Che Sylvester STALLONE TERRELL OWENS www.terrellowens.com £007 2004 Wordpress is born v 0.70 2005 started supporting plugins v 1.2 started supporting themes v 1.5 allows import posts from RSS, Blogger v 2.0 2007 Wordpress gets 2008 Bunioddns pəes dashboard widgets 600z Wordpress gets 11 Million users v 3.0 20-25% of all new websites v 3.2 were built on Wordpress v 3.3 UX /UI Redesign 2013 Websites using Wordpress CMS are up to 72.4 Million v 3.5.1