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WordPress 
- This article is about the self-hosted blog software. For the free blogging service, see WordPress.com.
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| WordPress | |
| Developer | Matt Mullenweg Ryan Boren Donncha O Caoimh |
| Latest release | 2.3.3 / February 5, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Platform | PHP |
| Genre | Blog publishing system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://wordpress.org/ |
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WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. Distributed under the GNU General Public License, it is the official successor of b2\cafelog, a software developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.3.3, released on February 5, 2008. WordPress releases are named after well-known jazz musicians.
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2. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. In 2004, the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package was changed by Six Apart and many of its users migrated to WordPress, causing a marked and continuing growth in WordPress's popularity.
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3. The features of WordPress includes:
- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) post editor
- Templating system
- Integrated link management
- Search engine-friendly permalink structure
- Support for plugins
- Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
- Trackback and Pingback
- Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
- Static pages
- Multiple authors
- Can store a list of users that visit your blog
- Can block site visitors by IP address
- Tag support
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4. BlogSecurity currently maintains a list of WordPress vulnerabilities. In a June 2007 interview, Stefen Esser, the founder of the PHP Security Response Team, spoke critically of WordPress's security track record, citing problems with the application's architecture that make it unnecessarily difficult to write code that is secure against SQL injection vulnerabilities, as well as other problems.
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5. WordPress supports one weblog per installation, though multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. Wordpress Multi-User (Wordpress MU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. Wordpress MU makes it possible for any one with a website to host their own blogging community, control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. Wordpress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog. Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of Wordpress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables.
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6. WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Though developed much by the community surrounding it, WordPress is closely associated with Automattic, where some of WordPress's main contributing developers are employees. The community also includes WP testers, a group of people that volunteer time and effort to testing each release. They have early access to nightly builds, Beta versions and Release Candidates. Upgrading to these versions, they can find and report errors to a special mailing list, or the project's Trac tool.
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7. On July 10, 2007, following a discussion on the WordPress ideas forum and a post by Mark Ghosh in his blog Weblog Tools Collection, Matt Mullenweg announced that the official WordPress theme directory at http://themes.wordpress.net would no longer host themes containing sponsored links. Although this move was criticised by designers and users of sponsored themes, it was applauded by some WordPress users who consider such themes to be spam. more... at Wikipedia
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