In this blog post, I would like to pay tribute to the best Online Content Management System (for me) which is WORDPRESS.

WordPress is a well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.

Started in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. Launched with just a handful of users, Wordpress is now used by over 62.8 million websites.

The birth of Wordpress was encourage by the announcement that b2/cafelog would stop it’s development and  Matt Mullenweg who’s using b2 as the primary blogging software on his sites announced that he was going to create a similar software from the b2 codebase. He was later contacted by Mike Little and they developed a modern folk software of b2 which was current with web standards.

WordPress 0.7 , the first version was released on May 27, 2003. It was the upgrade from b2 version 0.62. It was XHTML 1.1 complaint, had new default templates and a new admin interface.

Succeeding versions was released in a few months time for upgrades and bug fixes. On June 9, 2003 WordPress 0.71, on October 11, 2003 Wordpress 0.72, on January 3, 2004 Wordpress 1.0.

After wordpress 1.0 the developers decided to give the next releases a codename after a famous Jazz Musician.

In 2005 marks the year for rapid growth when they released version 1.5 codename Strayhorn which introduced themes and millions of people downloaded them.

In 2006, was the first ever Wordcamp held in San Francisco. Wordcamp is a conference that focuses on anything about Wordpress. They are informal community organized events put together by wordpress users. There are now dozens of WordCamps around the world, from Vancouver to Dallas to Milan, Italy.

The most current version of Wordpress is version 2.8 codename Chet Baker released on June 10th of this year.

Wordpress will continue to grow and improve and adjust to its user’s needs. Wordpress is and should always be created by and for the community. It has the best and friendliest interface out there. Kudos to the Wordpress people!