Tag: WP20

Today our favorite CMS celebrates its 20th anniversary 🎉. A special website dedicated to this event has been established by the WordPress team:

What started as a way to make a better blogging experience has grown into a vibrant open source project that powers an ever-growing percentage of the world’s websites.

https://wp20.wordpress.net

Let’s commemorate some historic milestones, the WordPress project passed within two decades:

May 2003: WordPress 0.7 – The first release

WordPress Now Available

January 2004: WordPress 1.0

WordPress 1.0

May 2004: Support for plugins

WordPress 1.2

August 2006: The first WordCamp has been organized

WordCamp in San Francisco

December 2008: Automatic upgrades with a single click

WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane"

June 2010: Multisite functionality

WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"

October 2013: Automatic maintenance and security background updates

WordPress 3.7 “Basie”

December 2015: The WP-API has been integrated

WordPress 4.4 “Clifford”

December 2018: A new block-based Editor

WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”

July 2021: theme.json

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum”

January 2022: Full Site Editing

WordPress 5.9 “Josephine”