The 15 year anniversary of Wordpress

Wordpress has been around for 15 years now that is quite a long time, but how did it start and how did it grow?At MijnHostingPartner we like to investigate things so we decided to investigate how Wordpress was created and how it has grown.

The history of Wordpress

The history of wordpress began in 2002 when a student named Matt Mullenweg installed something called cafelog for his personal use.The original developer of cafelog had quit and the project was in the hands of his community.On April 1, 2003, Matt Mullenweg, with the help of a friend named Mike Little, released a modified version of cafelog.Christine Tremoulet (a friend of Matt's) had recommended using the name Wordpress for this and that is the name they still use today.The first full version of Wordpress was released in January of 2004 and it was also known as the Davis version.The reason it was called the Davis is because of Matt's love of Jazz music.He named every major update to Wordpress after Jazz hits from the past and present.There is also a plugin created by Matt that comes standard with every installation of Wordpress called Hello Dolly.This plugin is a reverence To Louis Armstrong and sums up how she felt when Wordpress was first released.

Wordpress at MyHostingPartner

Since Wordpress is widely used and continues to grow it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with the updates of all your themes and plugins.That's why we offer Managed Wordpress Hosting.What this exactly means is that your Wordpress, themes and plugins are updated automatically, this way you can always work without having to worry about updates!Managed Wordpress also makes backups for you every day, if things go wrong on your website you can restore it!If you have any questions you can always check if there is a chat available.If no one is available via chat, you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk!