Wordpress
Wordpress is one of the most popular and commonly used blog publishing systems and is used by millions of people all over the world in several countries. It is one of the many things that works on PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. Wordpress was created by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little and made its debut on the internet in 2003.
Wordpress is the official successor to b2\cafelog which hosted around 3000 blogs when Wordpress was created. Wordpress offers a number of features which make blogging an easy and fun experience including:
Categories so that you can fit your articles into separate slots according content
· Templates
· A permalink structure which is detected by search engines
· Multiple authors per blog
· Typographic filters that allow you to properly format and style your text
· Tags
· Integrated link management
· The facility of storing a user’s IP address
· Blocking an IP address
Wordpress releases are named after famed Jazz musicians. The secong version 1.2 was released soon after Wordpress was first unveiled, following which version 1.5 came out in early 2005. In December of the same year Wordpress 2.0 was released and a year ago, in January 2007 Wordpress 2.1 called Ella was brought out. In May version 2.2; Getz was released which supported a host of features including widget support for templates, updated Atom feed support and speed optimizations. Dexter, which came out in September has a taxonomy system for categories, update notifications, improvements in the interface and certain security issues have also been dealt with.
Wordpress blogs have certain security concerns as almost all of them are exploitable through codes that can be introduced in the form of a back door. A Wordpress exploit has also attacked blogs with AdSense and some Search Engine Optimization blogs.
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