WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that emerged in 2003 as a fork of the b2 blogging software. Its features include ease of use, responsiveness, SEO-friendliness, and extensive customization options, making it popular for managing various websites. As of February 2017, WordPress powers 58.7% of known websites, indicating its widespread adoption and brand strength in the CMS market.

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2. WORDPRESS

3. INDEX
Overview
History
Uses
Features
Future
Conclusion

4. Overview
• WORDPRESS is a free and open source content management system(CMS)
software, can be used on any personal or commercial website, built on PHP and
MySQL and licensed under GPL.
• The current version of Wordpress is WordPress 4.9.6 Privacy and Maintenance
Release, released on May 17, 2018.

5. History
• According to the official Wordpress Codex, WordPress is the official successor to a
blogging tool developed by French programmer Michel Valdrighi named b2/ cafelog, which
launched in 2001.
• In 2002 Valdrighi stopped developing b2, which in another world could have been where
the story ends.

6. • However, in January 2003 Matt Mullenweg, a university freshman who was using
the b2 blogging software to post photos he was taking on a trip to Washington
D.C., wrote on his blog that he’d be willing to create a fork of the project, which,
together with a guy named Mike Little (who now runs a web development
company named Zed1), is exactly what he did.
• WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg
and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend of
Mullenweg, suggested the name WordPress and released the first version of
WordPress in May 2003.
• In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were
changed by Six Apart, resulting in many of its most influential users migrating to
WordPress.
• By October 2009 the Open Source CMS Market Share Report concluded that
WordPress enjoyed the greatest brand strength of any open-source content
management system.
• As of February 2017, WordPress is used by 58.7% of all the websites whose
content management system is known. This is 27.5% of the top 10 million
websites.

7. Uses
• Website management made easy
• Unlimited pages on your website
• Extend your website

8. • Multilingual websites
• Wordpress is an open source CMS
• Easy changing of your domain or company
name
• Wordpress is SEO friendly
• Can post updates, contents and offers easily

9. Features
• Ease of use
• Responsive Web Design
• Multiple theme options and graphic templates
• Plugins for customizations
• WooCommerce for E-commerce
• Increased Site Security
• Self-Hosted Platform
• Community Support
• SEO-Friendly
• Easy Social Media Integration
• Outstanding Scalability

10. Conclusion
WordPress is to create a simple website. It is
one of the simplest system to use of all
solutions available on the internet. It's very
good choose for a beginner's but for the
advanced users with advanced needs would
have to install many other plugins.