WordPress is a free Content Management System (CMS). It was developed starting in 2003 by Matthew Mullenweg as software for weblogs and is continuously developed as an open-source project. WordPress is used by over 63 % of all websites (as of May 2023) whose CMS is known and is therefore the most widely used system for operating them.[6] About one third of the million most visited websites use WordPress.[7]
In WordPress, every post can be assigned to freely creatable categories. Navigation elements are automatically generated appropriately. The system also offers reader comments with the possibility to review them before publication, management of user roles and rights, and the possibility of external plugins, with which WordPress can be expanded into a full-fledged CMS.[8]
WordPress is based on the scripting language PHP(PHP 7.4 or higher is recommended) and requires a MySQL– or MariaDB-database.[9] It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). According to the developers, the system places special value on web standards, elegance, usability and easy customizability. WordPress was created on the basis of the software b2.
History
In the years 2001/2002, Michel Valdrighi developed a PHP-written weblogging system called b2/cafelog, which was published under GPL. Some months after Valdrigh
