word press
WordPress is a free and open-source content
management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin
architecture and a template system.
It is most associated with blogging but
supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists
and forums, media galleries, and online stores.
Overview
"WordPress
is a factory that makes webpages is a core analogy designed
to clarify what WordPress is and does. It stores your content that allows you
to create & publish webpages only
requiring a domain and a hosting site to work.
WordPress
has a web template system using
a template processor.
Its architecture is a front controller, routing all requests for
non-static URIs
to a single PHP file which parses the URI and identifies the target page. This
allows support for more human-readable permalinks.
Themes
WordPress
users may install and switch among different themes.
Themes allow users to change the look
and functionality of a WordPress website without altering the core code or site
content.
WordPress themes are
generally classified into two categories: free and premium. Many free themes
are listed in the WordPress theme directory, and premium themes are available
for purchase from marketplaces and individual WordPress developers.
WordPress
users may also create and develop their own custom themes. The free theme
Underscores created by the WordPress developers has become a popular basis for
new themes.
Mobile applications
Native
applications exist for WebOS, Android,iOS (iPhone,
iPod Touch, iPad), Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. These applications,
designed by Automattic, have
options such as adding new blog posts and pages, commenting, moderating
comments, replying to comments in addition to the ability to view the stats.
Plugins
WordPress' plugin architecture allows users to extend the features and functionality of a website or blog. As of June 2019, WordPress.org has 55,131 plugins available, each of which offers custom functions and features enabling users to tailor their sites to their specific needs.
Most plugins are available through WordPress themselves, either via downloading them and installing the files manually via FTP or through the WordPress dashboard. However, many third parties offer plugins through their own websites, many of which are paid packages.
Web developers who wish to develop plugins need to learn WordPress' hook system which consists of over 300 hooks divided into two categories: action hooks and filter hooks.
Other features
WordPress
also features integrated link management; a search engine–friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to
assign multiple categories to posts; and support for tagging of posts. Automatic filters are
also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in posts
(for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes).
WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links
to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or an article. WordPress
posts can be edited in HTML, using the visual editor, or using one of a number
of plugins that allow for a variety of customized editing features.
History
b2/cafelog, more commonly known as b2 or cafelog,
was the precursor to WordPress. b2/cafelog was estimated to
have been installed on approximately 2,000 blogs as of May 2003. It was written in PHP for
use with MySQL by Michel Valdrighi, who is now a
contributing developer to WordPress. Although WordPress is the official
successor, another project, b2evolution, is also in active development.
WordPress
first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of
b2. Christine Selleck
Tremoulet, a friend of Mullenweg, suggested the name WordPress.
In
2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed
by Six Apart, resulting in many of its most
influential users migrating to WordPress. By October 2009 the Open
Source CMS MarketShare Report concluded that WordPress enjoyed the greatest
brand strength of any open-source content management system.
As
of June 2019, WordPress is used by 60.8% of all the websites whose content
management system is known. This is 27.5% of the top 10 million websites.
Awards and recognition
- · Winner of InfoWorld's "Best of open source software awards: Collaboration", awarded in 2008.
·
Winner of
Open Source CMS Awards's "Overall Best Open Source CMS", awarded in
2009.
·
Winner of
digitalsynergy's "Hall of Fame CMS category in the 2010 Open Source",
awarded in 2010.
·
Winner
of InfoWorld's "Bossie award for Best Open
Source Software", awarded in 2011.
·
WordPress
has a five star privacy rating from
the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
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