WordPress turned 8 years old on Friday. WordPress story in screenshots

This Friday, May 27, the most popular WordPress CMS was exactly eight years old - on May 27, 2003, an open-source CMS with the same name was announced. What appeared as a fork of the b2 blogging platform has become an incredibly popular self-contained platform that millions of people use. Wordpress sites do everything - from schoolchildren to the largest online media. Now about 45 million sites, including Mashable, work on this CMS. I propose to re-view the history of Wordpress in the screenshots, and remember how it all began. Personally, I started working with Wordpress, starting with version 2.3.3. We will not indicate all intermediate versions, in the reviewer only key versions and updates are shown.

Wordpress 0.7.1

The same release, announced on May 27, 2003.



Wordpress 1.0.1

This version appeared in January 2004. The update included an updated installation system, a new default theme, and several other improvements.



Wordpress 1.2

The release date for this version is May 2004. Wordpress has added support for plugins, which is one of the key factors that made this system so popular.



Wordpress 1.5 The

next date is 2005, February. New features, like the ability to create pages, a new default theme, Kubrick. This theme has remained the default theme for 5 years, something like that.



Wordpress 2.0

A gift for bloggers was made on December 31, 2005. New admin panel, WYSIWYG and other goodies.



Wordpress 2.1

More than a year has passed since the release of Wordpress 2.0, and a new version appeared in January 2007. Here we added autosave, tabs appeared in the editor, plus the ability to set any page as the homepage for the site.



Wordpress 2.2

May 2007 - release of Wordpress 2.2. Presented widgets, also changed the scheme of work on Wordpress.



Wordpress 2.3

September 2007. New feature - support for tags and categories. It is not surprising now, but then - it was SOMETHING.



Wordpress 2.5

March 2008 - new admin panel, plus a lot of additional changes and innovations. The interface for adding materials was also changed, which caused outrage among a number of users. But after a while all this changed again.





Wordpress 2.7

December 2008, Wordpress 2.7 was released. The admin panel is completely changed, and is more like what we see now. The interface for adding materials to the blog has also been changed, which remained almost unchanged until Wordpress 2.9.





Wordpress 3.0

July 2010 - Wordpress 3.0, one of the largest platform updates that can be called key. A lot of innovations and new features. The interface for adding materials to the site has become modular and modifiable.





Wordpress 3.2

The release of the new version is expected in June this year. In the beta version presented by the developers, an updated admin panel, including the addition of new materials. The developers also officially announced the end of support for IE 6. By the way, the Distraction Free Writing Mode has also been added, in which the editor will not distract anything from working with text.







Via Mashable