WordPress

WordPress is a Web publishing system (a.k.a. content management system) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is used to manage frequently updated Web content, especially Weblogs. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge.

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History

The name "Wordpress" was suggested by , a friend of lead developer . WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog and has a thriving user and developer community.

WordPress releases are named after well-known jazz musicians. The current version of WordPress is 1.2 Mingus.

WordPress currently supports one weblog or site per installation, but multiple installations are trivial. A future release will support multiple weblogs from one installation. (A second, "unofficial" branch off b2, , does support multiple weblogs per installation.) WordPress is fully XHTML and CSS compliant.

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Features

Generates standards-compliant XML and XHTML
Integrated link management
Nice-looking permalinks
Extensible plugin support
Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
TrackBack and Pingback
Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text

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Developers

WordPress development is led by and .

The contributing developers are

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