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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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. ... Read more
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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
At least 4,000,000 pages made with WordPress using the free or paid version of Really Simple Security(formerly Really Simple SSL) were affected by a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. All the details are in this article by István Márton on the Wordfence blog. The vulnerability, already fully fixed in version 9.1.2 of the plugin, ... Read more
The DOM (Document Object Model) is a programming interface for HTML and XML documents and the name given to the structure of an HTML document, composed of branches and nodes containing objects. The history of the Document Object Model dates back to the so-called"browser wars" of the late 1990s between Netscape Navigator and ... Read more
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