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| Developer(s) | WordPress Foundation |
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| Initial release | May 27, 2003 |
| Stable release | 4.7.3 (March 6, 2017) |
| Preview release | 4.7 RC (November 24, 2016) |
| Repository | core |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Blog software, Content Management System, Content Management Framework |
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GNU GPLv2+ Proprietary (for web hosting) |
| Website | wordpress |
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is installed on a web server that is either part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. The first case may be a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case could be a computer running the software package WordPress.org. A local computer may be used for single-user testing and learning purposes. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites as of February 2017[update]. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. WordPress is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license from the Free Software Foundation.
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. Once downloaded, WordPress installation files have a size of about 20 MB.
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