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CHAPTER 13 INTRODUCING WORDPRESS 377 HISTORY OF WORDPRESS WordPress grew as the official successor to Michel Valdrighi s b2/cafelog blogging software. Michel started the b2 project around July 2001. The project s development progressed rapidly, and it built an extensive following. Cafelog.com, the home of b2, supported incredibly busy forums and built a great community. Many people helped report and fix bugs in b2. A few produced add-ons, hacks, and customizations to the core software. In late 2002, Michel found he could not continue to develop b2 because of personal commitments. For a few months, b2 floundered after release 0.6. Some user frustration followed, and pretty much simultane- ously, two forks of the project were proposed. b2evolution was started by Fran ois Planque, and WordPress was started by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little (one of your humble authors). On May 23, 2003, Michel Valdrighi announced, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little are leading the new WordPress branch of b2. That is going to become the new official branch once they get a release out. b2++, started by Donncha o Caoimh, was another variant that began later. This project eventually became WordPress MU, or WordPress Multi User. Michel later returned to online life and is now a contributor to WordPress. WordPress has a drop-in-and-go theme system. Upload one of the hundreds of beautiful themes people have developed and published, and start using it at the click of a mouse button. You can switch from one theme to another with a couple more mouse clicks. The administration interface is intuitive and simple to use. However, if you do get lost, there are help links on every page. WordPress has an extensible plug-in system, allowing developers to add to or change the software s functionality. Hundreds of plug-ins have already been developed, and many more are being created all the time. There are plug-ins for threaded comments, for adding a gallery to your post, to generate Amazon links, and much more. WordPress Releases The first non-beta release of WordPress was 0.7 in May 2003. This version was essentially an update to b2 version 0.6, but it already included semantically correct, validating default templates; a built-in link manager; a new administration interface; and other features. Release 0.71 followed in June and added a 300% speed increase (honest!), draft and private posts, comment status, Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) import of blogrolls, and many more improvements. The WordPress developer team grew, and more releases followed over the next few months. January 2004 saw the leap to version 1.0, which heralded a massive increase in functionality: search engine-friendly permalinks, multiple categories, the much-touted quick installation, comment moderation, yet more improvements to the administration interface, and so on. By this time, the number of users was quite considerable. The forums were well established and quite busy. May 2004 saw the next major release of WordPress. Version 1.2 was released with subcategories, automatic thumbnail creation for image uploads, the new plug-in architecture, localization, post preview, more importers, and the usual slew of bug fixes, speed ups, and tweaks. The administration interface was yet again improved.
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