How WordPress came to be?

The story of how WordPress came to be is pretty interesting.

It was created by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little in 2003. It started as a fork of another content management system named cafelog, but it grew rapidly to become this robust ecosystem with millions of websites in its community – and today over 40% of websites globally use WordPress.

WordPress is open source, meaning anyone can copy, examine and modify the source code, and redistribute the software to others. Anything created on WordPress is also collaborative, which makes it a thriving community.

As it was meant to be a blogging platform with the option to create other types of pages, it had at first one type of content: blog posts. They added pages, plugins, attachments, and so on later.

Note: That’s why, we at Tangible prefer to call content types this, but WordPress’s official definition of content types is post types. We’re only mentioning this because we will use them interchangeably along the course. But just keep in mind that WordPress manages different types of content, but they are officially called post types. 

And what are the other post types? Pages, attachments (or media), and revisions are great examples of other post types. We will take a look at them in a lesson later in the course.