What is Wordpress?

WordPress is a blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management. It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide.

What are some real world examples of what Wordpress can do?

• Standard and Personal Blogs
• Online Communities
• Commercial or Personal Websites

Who uses Wordpress?

• Ebay manages their official blog using WordPress. They have it custom designed to make it look flashy. Even though it doesn’t look like WordPress, it is WordPress.
• Yahoo is also using WordPress to power multiple blogs that they own. This one is just one example.
• Digg Blog, a popular Social Media site Digg is using WordPress to power their corporate blog.
• Ford, the automotive giant, is also using WordPress to power their blog.
• Wall Street Journal
• Sony
• People Magazine
• Samsung
• Playstation
• NYTimes Blogs
• Wired
• Mozilla Firefox
• CNN