About WordPress & Open Source

About WordPress & Open Source. Course Material By DWIJAS..

1. General History Of Word Press. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2 . Christine Selleck Tremoulet , a friend of Mullenweg , suggested the name WordPress ..

What is Open Source ?. Open-source software is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner ..

What You Can Do With WordPress ?. It can be used for everything from making money selling digital products to showcasing your art for the world to see. You can talk about issues most people aren’t aware of or find it difficult to address. You can even leverage it as a platform to drive awareness and change to ongoing issues such as extreme poverty and famine ..

High-Level Overview. What Is a Content Management System? When WordPress was released in 2003, the majority of websites were programmed by hand, using a text markup language called Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML) . While HTML isn’t a complex programming language, it does present a barrier to entry for many people who want to publish online. Content Management Systems ( CMS) were created to eliminate the need for any kind of programming by the users of a web publishing system. The user interface of a CMS for editing web pages looks similar to a word processor. There are controls for formatting text and adding links. Writing tools like spell checking and undo are included. And because web pages need pictures, the CMS is also capable of adding, positioning, and sometimes editing images ..