A brief History about the WordPress CMS, its foundation, its founders and some amazing facts as of January 2020.

1. COMMUNITY MEETUP #1
January 2020

2. Event Partners

3. Event Team
Muhammad Bilal Awais ZaidiAltaf Hussain Arbaz Abid
Adeel Javaid Shahid Aslam Farhan Bari

4. Speaker Association
• Connect Ventures - 2015
• WPLancing – 2014
• Bizsol - 2001
• Office Products - 2015
• UrduTrans - 2015
• Startup Grind - 2017
• TechStars Startup Weekend - 2018
• WordPress Faisalabad – 2016
• FCCI IT Committee – 2018
• FCCI-SEED Committee - 2019Muhammad Bilal

5. Global WordPress Support & Services - 24/7

6. The History
> 2003 (Before 2003)

7. Who know about this?
b2/cafelog

8. b2/cafelog
• b2/cafelog, more commonly known
as b2 or cafelog, was the precursor to
WordPress.
• b2/cafelog was estimated to have been installed
on approximately 2,000 blogs as of May 2003.
• It was written in PHP for use with MySQL by
Michel Valdrighi, who is now a contributing
developer to WordPress.
• Although WordPress is the official successor,
another project, b2evolution, is also in active
development.

9. Founders
Matt Mullenweg Mike Little
WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt
Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2.

10. WordPress HQ (till 17)

11. Some Amazing Facts
• WordPress is a Product of AUTOMATTIC under WordPress Foundation
• Company has 940 Employees and its worth is around $3Billion
• WordPress is used by more than 60 million websites, including 33.6% of the
top 10 million websites as of April 2019.
• The software is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.
• WordPress.org has 55,131 plugins available.
• Phone apps for WordPress exist for WebOS, Android, iOS (iPhone, iPod
Touch, iPad), Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.
• On August 12, 2019, Automattic acquired Tumblr from Verizon Media
• AVADA is one of the most sold Themes and its Made in Pakistan

12. Thank You
Facebook.com/WordPressFaisalabad
Facebook.com/groups/WordPressFaisalabad