WordPress is based on the PHP scripting language (at least PHP 5.2.4) and requires a MySQL database (MySQL 5.0.15). It is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
According to the developers, the system places special emphasis on web standards, elegance, usability and easy adjustability. WordPress has a growing user and developer community; it forms part of Website Packages Brisbane.
In the years 2001/2002 Michel Valdrighi developed a program written in PHP Blog system called b2/Cafelog , released under GPL. A few months after Valdrighi had discontinued the development of b2, Matthew Mullenweg announced in January 2003 that he would write to the b2 codebase for a new weblog software that is easy to use, should be flexible and well adapted.
A short time later he started with Mike Little, the development of WordPress. The first stable version of WordPress was released on 3 January 2004.
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