Jamie Thornton
Martin Laver
Andy McGregor
2003
- b2 forked by Matt Mullenweg
- WordPress version 0.7 released on 27 May 2003
2005
- Big year for WordPress
- Support for pages
- Pages lead to Custom Post Types
- Support for themes
- Official Plugin Repository launched
2008
- Support for automated installing and updating plugins and themes in the CMS
2013
- New admin dashboard styles
2018
- Gutenberg, the block-based editor, introduced
2022
- Full-site editing introduced
Shirley Horn
1 May 1934 - 20 October 2005
Free themes available in the theme repo
https://wordpress.org/themes/
Free plugins available in the plugin repo
https://wordpress.org/plugins/
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Of all websites with a CMS
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
%
Of all websites
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
%
Market share for WooCommerce
https://storeleads.app/reports
WordCamp Nepal 2022
WordCamp New Jersey 2022
WordCamp Torreldones 2023
WordCamp Uganda 2023
WordCamp Zurich 2022
Andy speaking at WPNE in November 2022
https://www.meetup.com/wp-north-east/
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