WordPress was born in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of the defunct b2/cafelog CMS created by French PHP programmer Michel Valdrighi in 2001.
The need for an elegant and well-designed personal publishing system was evident even then. Today, WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL, is GPLv2 licensed, and is also the platform of choice for more than 42% of all websites on the internet.
This open source WordPress project has evolved progressively over time, with the support of expert developers and enthusiasts, designers, scientists, bloggers and others. WordPress offers the possibility for anyone to create and share any content. People with little experience in technology, design or programming can use it "just like that", and experts can customise it almost without limits.
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WordPress turns 20 this year. And next year it will be 21, but that's how we are with ephemeris. We like round dates. The worldwide WordPress community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the day WordPress was launched on 27 May 2023. Two decades ago, WordPress debuted with Texturize, XHTML 1.1, manual excerpts
After almost a year of using Google Analytics and Matomo together, yesterday I disconnected Analytics from the blog for good. I could have removed it much earlier, as for performance purposes it wasn't a very good idea to keep both JavaScript tracking codes running at the same time because of the impact on
GenerateBlocks 1.7 and GenerateBlocks Pro 1.5 have entered their first release candidate and will soon be available for use on production sites. With this important update of the plugin, which was born with four simple blocks, now has eight with the addition, among other things, of a tab block and an accordion block.
I still believe that GenerateBlocks will eventually rise above most block plugins and even the occasional builder. Here are 13 reasons to use it, and now there are a few more. GenerateBlocks was born in August last year with just four blocks that promised you could do almost anything. While this was true
The 1.0.104 update of the Rank Math plugin, in its free version of 19 December, adds a new table of contents block and it was about time. This functionality, very useful for the reader and beneficial for SEO purposes, until now had to be added with a dedicated plugin like Simple TOC or
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