WordPress was created in 2003 by its founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It is open source content management system software used to create websites and blogs. Some key facts about WordPress include that it powers 32% of websites on the internet, has over 123 million theme downloads, and 1 billion total plugin downloads. Major websites that use WordPress include The New York Times, CNN, and Forbes.

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By Amir Shokri
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2. History Of Wordpress
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little,
as a fork of b2/cafelog. The software is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.

3. Overview
"WordPress is a factory that makes webpages" is a core analogy designed to clarify what
WordPress is & does. It stores your content that allows you to create & publish webpages
only requiring a domain and a hosting site to work.
WordPress has a web template system using a template processor. Its architecture is a front
controller, routing all requests for non-static URIs to a single PHP file which parses the URI
and identifies the target page. This allows support for more human-readable permalinks.

4. WordPress by the numbers
• WordPress runs 32% of the entire internet.
• 123,498,018 total theme downloads from WordPress.org in 2014.
• WordPress.org plugins received 1 billion total downloads, and counting.
• There are approximately 76.5 million WordPress.com blogs.

5. WordPress Websites
• The New York Times
• CNN
• Forbes
• Reuters
• MACLEAN's

6. Fortune 500
• The Walt Disney Company
• Pulse by Target
• Microsoft News Center
• Sony Music
• Public Storage Canada
• Blogitech
• PlayStation.Blog

7. Release history
• 0.7 - 1.0 - 1.2 - 1.5
• 2.0 - 2.1 - 2.2 - 2.3 - 2.4 - 2.5 - 2.6 - 2.7 - 2.8 - 2.9
• 3.0 - 3.1 - 3.2 - 3.3 - 3.4 - 3.5 - 3.6 - 3.7 - 3.8 - 3.9
• 4.0 - 4.1 - 4.2 - 4.3 - 4.4 - 4.5 - 4.6 - 4.7 - 4.8 - 4.9
• 5.0

8. Refrences
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
• Wordpress.org
• www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/