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WordPress is an open source application (open source) which is very popularly used as an engine blog (blog engine). WordPress is built with PHP programming languages ​​and databases (databases) MySQL. PHP and MySQL, both of which are open source software (open source software). Aside from being a blog, WordPress is also beginning to be used as a CMS (Content Management System) for its ability to be modified and tailored to the needs of its users. WordPress is the official successor of b2/cafelog developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was proposed by Christine Selleck, a friend of chairman of the developers (developers), Matt Mullenweg.
The latest release of WordPress is version 3.2.1 (July 12, 2011). WordPress is distributed with the GNU General Public License.

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The history began when Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, which is an active user of b2 b2 knowing that the process of development was stopped by pemrogramnya (programmer) named Michel Valdrighi, Matt Mullenweg was sorry and started to continue the development of b2.

WordPress first appeared in 2003 the hard work of Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. What makes WordPress more and more famous, but because of the many features and an attractive appearance, is also due to community support on open source software for blogs.

Superiority and Features of WordPress :

• Free of charge. To get the WordPress software only need to download from its website at no charge, even for commercial blogs though.
• Based on open source code (open source). Users can view and obtain sequence code compilers of the WordPress software freely, so that advanced users who have programming skills can freely make modifications, can even develop your own WordPress program is more advanced as you wish.
• Template or design looks easily modified as the user desires. So if the user has sufficient knowledge of HTML, then the user can create create your own templates. Users who do not understand HTML, of course, still be able to choose thousands of templates available on the internet for free, which of course free.
• Operation is easy.
• A WordPress blog, can be used for multiple users (multiple user). So WordPress is also often used for community blogs. Members of the community can play a role as a contributor.
• If the user had previously had a blog is not paid, for example, at the address Blogger, LiveJournal, or TypePad, users can import the content of these blogs to address hosting a personal blog using WordPress software. Thus users need not worry that the old blog content will be in vain after using WordPress software.
• In addition to users who are many, many community support (community support) to WordPress.
• There are many plugins are always evolving. WordPress plugin itself is an additional program that can be integrated with WordPress to provide other functions that are not yet available in the standard installation. For example the anti-spam plugin, the plugin web counters, photo albums.
• The ability to be able to display XML, XHTML, and CSS standards.
• Availability permalink structure that allow search engines to recognize the structure blog properly.
• The possibility to improve the performance of the blog with the extension.
• Able to support multiple categories for one article. One article in WordPress can dikatogorisasikan into several categories. With multikategori, searching and accessing information easier.
• Trackback and Pingback facilities. Also has the ability to perform automatic Ping (Ping RPC) to the various search engines and web directories, so that websites created with WordPress will be faster especially on search engines index.
• Facilities text formatting and text styles. WordPress provides management features of the text is quite complete. Features - feature format and style of text in most word processing software such as bold, italics, flush right, left flat, link available in WordPress.
• Static pages (special page that is separate from a collection of writings on his blog).
• Supports LaTeX.
• Having a good optimization capabilities on the Search Engines (Search Engine Optimizer)

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