May 27, 2003
WordPress released
Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released WordPressA PHP CMS powering millions of sites — themes, plugins, and the block editor for publishing. 0.7 on May 27, 2003 — a fork of b2/cafelog that became the world's most-used CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page..
What it was for
WordPressA PHP CMS powering millions of sites — themes, plugins, and the block editor for publishing. powers blogs, marketing sites, WooCommerce stores, and headless CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. backends — themes, plugins, and a familiar admin UIUser interface — the parts of software people see and interact with. on any PHP host. It democratized publishing for non-developers while staying hackable for agencies. Today it runs a large share of the public web.
People
- Matt Mullenweg — co founder
- Mike Little — co founder
Why it's here
WordPressA PHP CMS powering millions of sites — themes, plugins, and the block editor for publishing. became the default way to publish on the web without building a CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. from scratch.
Why it mattered
It proved open-source PHP could dominate consumer publishing and plugin ecosystems at global scale.
What it solved
Blogging tools like b2 were stagnating; developers needed a maintained, extensible fork with a modern admin.
Media
ImageWordPressWordPress Foundation, GPL, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- PHP Tools 1.0 announcedJune 8, 1995
- Drupal 1.0 releasedJanuary 15, 2001
- MySQL first releasedMay 23, 1995
- Symfony framework releasedOctober 22, 2005