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.
Here you will find articles related to this popular and veteran CMS, its plugins, optimisation tips, bug fixes, etc.
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Every day I like more and more simple and above all light things, and that's how Jeff Starr makes his plugins. A few days ago I was looking for something basic to put a counter in a manual download directory and I remembered Simple Download Counter by Plugin Planet. The plugin supports both ... Read more
For months I've had a draft on the back burner that I'll publish, or not, someday and it's titled something like "Things WordPress should have natively". So that's it, a list of what I think are basic, necessary or very useful things that would be nice to be included in WP core. One ... Read more
The first beta of WordPress 6.4 is now available for download and testing and includes the latest five versions of Gutenberg, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6 along with the upcoming 16.7 version which is pending release. As already announced in August, among the things that can already be tested is the lightbox for ... Read more
Citations is a new plugin that was published on August 20 in the repository and serves to create in-text citations and show the source as a bibliography. I don't know if it makes much sense to develop a dedicated plugin for something very similar to the"Footnotes" that WordPress already added in version 6.3, ... Read more
The WordPress performance team and plugin review team have already started working on the collaborative development of a new plugin that will support the new rollback option added to WordPress 6.3 and allow a collection of tests to help improve plugin performance. Plugin Check is a plugin under development to perform different checks ... Read more
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