The world’s most precious CMS turns 20 today, marking twenty years of material development, development, and neighborhood contributions.
What began as a little open source task now controls the web, with more than 43% of all sites (and 63% of websites constructed with a CMS) utilizing WordPress as their underlying structure.
Because 2010, WP Engine has actually stayed dedicated to the WordPress neighborhood, enhancing our platform and keeping a robust suite of open source tools that helps contractors and online marketers, companies and solopreneurs, international brand names and small companies, and everybody in between.
In event of this essential turning point for WordPress and the neighborhood, our group has actually been dealing with an enjoyable task that recalls at a few of the modifications– to both WordPress and the world– that have actually occurred over the previous twenty years.
A Quick History of WordPress and the World
WordPress has actually come a long method given that variation 1.0, and each brand-new model of the CMS has actually consisted of enhancements that assist its users develop more pleasing, more tailored, more performant digital experiences.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of WordPress, we constructed a website that mirrors the feel and look of variation 1.0 to advise you simply how far we have actually come as a neighborhood.
Scroll through for a fast timeline of significant WordPress variation updates, the modifications they brought, and what was going on worldwide at that minute in time. From sports, memes, and stars to breaking news and brand-new innovation, we check out a few of the cultural examples that occurred around each significant WordPress variation release.
We hope you get a great chuckle out of the decades-old style aspects and spend some time to value just how much WordPress– and the world– has actually altered in a fairly brief time frame.
WP Engine Commemorates 13 Remarkable Years
Accompanying the 20th anniversary of WordPress is the 13th anniversary of WP Engine’s starting! Considering that 2010, WP Engine has actually developed together with WordPress at every phase, fine-tuning our platform and offerings to finest serve the requirements of the neighborhood.
Our WordPress anniversary website likewise consists of some behind the scenes images that reveal what it resembled to operate at WP Engine in those early days. Things have actually altered a lot given that 2010, both for WordPress and for WP Engine, and we’re honored to have actually made the trust of the WordPress neighborhood as we look towards the future of our platform.
We can’t wait to see what the next 13 years will bring for WP Engine, our clients, and WordPress as an entire!
Thank You, WordPress Neighborhood
Without the neighborhood, WordPress would not be the flourishing digital structure we understand and enjoy today. Thank you to all the neighborhood members who have actually added to WordPress variations throughout the years. We hope you enjoy our little tribute to the history of WordPress!