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WordPress1 was born in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. Even then, the need for an elegant and well-designed personal publishing system was clear. Currently, WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL, and is licensed under GPLv2. In addition, it is the platform chosen by more than 43% of all websites.
The WordPress open source project has evolved progressively over time, with the support of developers, designers, scientists, bloggers and many other enthusiasts and experts. WordPress offers anyone the opportunity to create and share, from their own personal anecdotes to world-changing movements.
People with little experience in technology can use it “straight away,” and those more experienced can customize it in extraordinary ways.
- The most widespread and globally used CMS. ↩︎
