WordPress – open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.
It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of August 2010, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 12.5 million times.
Why WordPress?
It’s a question I’m sure everyone reading this post can answer and I’m willing to bet most of the answers are different. WPShout.com has compiled a list of answers from 21 notable people throughout the WordPress community to figure out why they choose to use WordPress. Here is my answer to the question:
The reason I chose WordPress is the same reason I continue to publish content through the software and that is through ease of use.
The publishing process in WordPress was simple when compared to Joomla or Drupal. This process has been refined in the two years I’ve been using WordPress so it’s even better today!
Later on in the comments, there is one by Ozh that I whole heartily agree with.
Is the initial reason you choose to go with WordPress the same reason you continue to use it today or has that reason changed? After you read their responses, feel free to come back and keep the conversation going in the comments.
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- on: August 24, 2010 at 2:35 pm
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