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Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Pages Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included i WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 proved content management opticns Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themetorest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg upsad/tneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed by Matt Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the and sign-up for free WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting license BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/ Dashboard WordPress W NOTABLE EVENTS Liks O Categories 16 Tags 2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v0.7 8.5 Theme Secial 1% an uin Appean WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MYSQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net. 2004 Version vt.0 was released with v1.0.1 Hdgets code named Miles me Coti Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic is released to notity search engines of new blog content Which WordPress? bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released v1.2 Mingus released in May containod many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin VS. . W system WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress 2005 v1.5 Strayhom indluded the Kubrick default theme and a nw static page feature v20 Duke added rich editing and image uploading Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam 10,935 Available Plugins WordPress.com is launched from private beta Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automattic 111,229,332 TOTAL PLUGIN DOWNLOADS 2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo execuive Toni Schneider as CEO Hello Dolly was the very ist plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song "Hello Dolly" to the WordPress Admin screen Popular Phugins Downloads Automattic raises $1. 1m in funding ALL IN ONE SEO PACK 5.928,058 The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people GOOGLE XML SITEMAPS 4.325.698 AKISMET 3-448,529 CONTACT FORM 7 2.381,235 SPAM NEXTGEN GALLERY 2,165,195 2007 v21 Ela was released in January and included improved content management opticns WORDPRESS.COM STATS 1,864,693 The WP SUPER CACHE 1,437.392 Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages -18,000,000/mo WPTOUCH IPHONE THEME 1,053.052 GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR 1,006,020 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award WordPress.com passes 1milion users NOTABLE COMMERCIAL THEMES v21.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerablity found in V21.1 Themes elegantthemes v2.2 Getz saw the WOO THEMES Press 5 arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. t 8 Graph Paper Press Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel Crowd Favorite ESTUDIOPRESS Commercial themes are available for ithemes V23 Dexter featured native tagging support purchase from a number providers. THESIS PREMUM MORDPRESS THEMES Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create Recently a number of theme "frameworks" have been developed that allow "child" themes to share the same feature set. HEADWAY THEMES themeforest and sell commercial ORGANICTHEMES WordPress themes Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes Interface Evolution 2008 v2.5 Brecker saw a brand new interface WordPress my weblog I m designed by Happy Cog Studios my weblog Write Manage Design Comments Po Fa v26 Tyner added new CMS features like post Write Post revisions Write Post Tde Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under W Test Installation the DIYThemes brand Dashboard W my weblog-vawte WordPress.com passes 4milion users * Add Neuw Post Daboand WooThemes is formed by Adi Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to Mullenweg padneert create and sell Commercial WordPress themes Carie Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller v2.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install teature as well as new internal interface design 13,409,950 Downloads of WordPress 3.0 and counting at a rate of approx. 2/second Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory Notable Sites 2009 V28 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget Investor.gov v BlackBery intertace orbes Di connect Y PGA TOI TED The New York Times TechCrunch Pepsi BlackBerry Kobe Byant Levi's National Geographic OnStar Forbes JÁY-Z WPTaven Investor.gov Entertainment Weeky Get Satisfaction Wheaton Whedg WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award KR24.COM EW.com Levrs BuddyPress was released by Andy Peating in April 2009 and added popular social network/ community features to a WordPress MU powered site REFRESH BLOG Hollywood Insid WerdPrus Tamera JAYZ TED WordPress.com passes 9milion users Zu Seu urk Emes Number10gouk EDCenge Ln Devpet G Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites GET BATISFACTION TechCrunch College The British Prime Minister The PGA v29 Carmen added a built-in imago editor and numerous improvements Start Using WordPress 2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation Fou Mat is formed b Goto WordPress.com Goto To WordiPress.org and download the free software to install at the host of your choice Try a managed WordPress hosting service like Page.ly y Matt Mullenweg to Turther the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free acoess and right to modity and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license and sign-up for free Pros: It's Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance. Very popular. Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Perfomance Pros: Full customization, Low Price for hosting BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress Cons: Some limits on plugins and custom themes Cons: Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are your responsibility. Cons: Medium to High Price Anefarious plot to delay the release of v3 Is uncovered. The dangerous mastormind turms out be a kitten References Credits v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU Into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called twentyten http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress http://wpeandy.com/uncategorized/history-of-wordpress-series-part-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress History http://wordpress.org/about/ http://boakes.org/akismet/ http://ma.tt/ http://akismet.com/stats/ Thttp://en.wordpress.com/stats/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/partners/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/mise/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/traffic/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/signups/ http://en.wordpress.com/stats/posting/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic http://www.crunchbase.com/company/studiopress http://www.crunechbase.com/company/woothemes http://www.erunchbase.com/company/page-ly bttp://www.scribd.com/doc/36135238/WordPress-3-0-at-DC-PHP http://www.peworld.com/businesseenter/article/191042/wordpress_guns_for_web content_mattagement_duties.html http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-inte Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com Gauthoritylabs Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme tace off on the issue of GPL complance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to "Spit GPL" to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines Some say split GPL is sbill violating the spirit of the WordPress project uthorityLabs Design by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly Wordlress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely pagely WordPress.com passes 11milion users Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License rface/