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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If your blog is a few years old and at a certain point you switched to the Gutenberg editor, leaving all those old posts published in the classic editor format, you may want to convert them now to Gutenberg blocks in one go. Doing this migration can offer some SEO and performance benefits.
One thing I don't understand is that WordPress does not yet include a simple but complete contact form by default. As I regularly do WordPress optimisation work, both here and on third-party sites, I often replace unnecessarily bloated plugins with options, blocks, and decorations that are never used or not needed with code
On 12 February the final version of GenerateBlocks 2.0 (GB) was released after a long cycle that started on 24 November 2024 with its first alpha.1 version, which I have been testing since the beginning. Version 2.0 is one of those that hides great improvements "under the bonnet" to keep sites well optimised.
Although there are different opinions about which is the best plugin to create a multilingual blog, and all of them have evolved a lot since their first versions simplifying and facilitating the task, one of the most used is Polylang. With more than 700,000 active installations to date, it remains one of the
"TR: "Well, in my humble opinion..." If we talk in terms of optimisation, the best plugin for anything is the one that is not used. This is not to say that there are no good, light and functional plugins that can be used to add those social media sharing buttons to WordPress. Sometimes
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