The Jazzy Rise of WordPress

WWORDPRESS Op en source engine / Powered by PHP Us ed by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites THE JAZZY RISE OF WORDPRESS Po wering 8.5% of all websites on the net As of 4th October 2010 version 3.0 had been downloaded.. 15-799-363 TIMES The download rate is about 2 more per second 31 December 2005 22 May 2004 1.2 Mingus Supports Plugins. 2.0 Duke Adds richer text editing, image uploading and improvements for plugin developers. 16 May 2007 2.2 Getz Speed optimization. 29 March 2008 2.5 Brecker Interface restyling. 11 December 2008 19 December 2009 2.7 Coltrane New admin interface. 2.9 Carmen Offers a global undo feature, built-in image editor. A SMALL TIMELINE 27 May 2003 0.7 First version released by 17 February 2005 1.5 Strayhorn Manage static 22 January 2007 2.1 developers Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren and pages and add a Donncha o theme system. Caoimh. Ella New interface, spell check, auto 24 September 2007 2.3 save, more 15 July 2008 Dexter security options. 2.6 10 June 2009 Support tagging system and 17 June 2010 A REAL OPEN SOURCE Tyner security fixes. Tracking system for changes to posts, enhanced posting tools. 3.0 Thelonious New theme improvement, APIS. The merge 2.8 Baker Speed The license is OPEN SOURCE, GPLV2. Instead of building the core of WordPress to do a million things, the creators of WordPress were smarter and made the infrastructure open and extendable. As a result, a large community of software developers are building plugins. CodePress editor. of WordPress and WordPress MU, creating the multi-site functionality. A complete walkthrough exists for both programmers and beginners at codex.wordpress.org II,496 Hello Dolly was the very first plugin available. available plugins As of 4th October 2010 It simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the Admin MOST POPULAR PLUGINS screen. All in one Seo Pack Google XML sitemaps Akismet Contact Form 7 NextGen Gallery Wordpress.com Stats 5,928,058 WP Super Cache A 2,381,325 2,165,195 1,864,693 WP Touch iPhone Theme \3,448,529 | 4,325,698 Google Analyticator 1,437,392 1,053,052 1,006,020 downloads THEMES can INTERNAL search engine be installed and switched between FEATURES An automatical LINK RSS FEED comes ability to assign multiple and nested WIDGETS (arrangeable without editing PHP or HTML) management out with a feed TAGGING article system CATEGORIES to articles PLUGIN TRACKBACKS and LINKBACKS: architecture (allows to display external sites linking to the entry users and developers to extend its functionality) AKISMET (It automatically blocks spam comments from your blog) TEMPLATING SYSTEM PORTFOUO THEMES Over 1,240 HOSTED in the theme directory and many thousands offered by webmasters outside of the wp theme directory, for a total of over 21.4 million downloads. THE ANTI-SPAM SERVICE The Akismet plugin by Automattic has caught over 17.8 billions of spam comments, an average of 18 million per month. There are also over 800 commercial themes. splashpressmedia infographic LABS