Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!
Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!
Having only used WordPress the last 3 years and only having been really involved the last couple of years, it is humbling to reflect that it has been 5 years. There is a special spot in my heart for those that worked on WordPress before anyone cared, that first year, those participants with the foresight and perseverance to build on a open source foundation to establish the greatest web publishing tool, WordPress!
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Wordpress is a terrific blogging app. No dispute there. But as long as it has been around, you would think they would find the security holes in it before they release a new version to the public, wouldn’t you? Not more than a week after I installed 2.5 the upgrade 2.5.1 came out.
The larger a piece of software is, the harder it is to find new bugs that you introduce. Wordpress is huge and security holes are usually just programming bugs. Plus consider the fact that they start with internal testing, then roll it out to more and more people. It’s hard to spot something wrong with code you wrote yourself, much easier for other people to spot it.
I’ve spent about 4 years or so messing around with building terrible looking html template sites with questionable functionality, then by (what is now) a stroke of luck I lost the hosting account I brought of ebay all those years ago!
So I needed a quick fix for the sites that actually worked:
New Host + Fantastico + Wordpress = Salvation
I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t had Wordpress there to fall back on. All three of my “reasonable” websites are now WP based and I find it so easy to use, with the plugins making my life a breeze now!
Well, Happy Birthday to Wordpress, and have to say that Wordpress dominates the web publishing biz. Blogger has been falling back lately, and I read somewhere that the Wikipedia guys were planning to launch an open source web publishing platform, but haven’t heard anything lately about that.
I am a huge fan of Wordpress. I hope it continues to own the blogoshpere. I have not gotten too cute with my plug ins but that is my next direction. Thanks
Although I’ve only been a WP user for around a year now, nothing comapairs to it! I kick myself at the thought of editing every page in HTML like I used too. If I’d discovered the power of WP when it was first released there would have been no end to the websites I’d have created!
I have had my wordpress blog for 2 years and have almost become addicted to writing on it. It has increased our wedding photography bookings and drives a lot of customers to us. Wordpress also has the added benefit of getting into google within minutes of posting. Happy birthday wordpress.
I love wordpress! I have been using it for about 9 months.
Great post!