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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Clarity records in real time various user interactions on your website, e.g. how the page is rendered, interactions such as mouse movements, clicks, scrolling, etc. and returns reports, heat maps and video session recordings. Links to the recorded sessions can be shared with members of the project team or anyone else by generating ... Read more
The WordPress search engine sucks I don't know anyone who uses WordPress who speaks well of its search engine and I still don't understand that it has barely evolved since the first versions. Not only is it primitive in terms of how it works, it offers no configuration whatsoever. Even the appearance of ... Read more
Last week Gutenberg version 15.3 was released. Among other things, a new "Time to Read" block has been added to calculate and display the estimated reading time on a post or page. It uses the same method as the metrics shown in the admin details panel in the editor. According to WordPress, letting ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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