Wordpress is arguably the internet's most popular blogging platform, hosting 202 million websites as of September 2009. Started in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as an offshoot of another blogging platform, b2/cafelog, which was shut down that year. From these fairly humble origins, Wordpress underwent massive growth over the next few years.
Many large businesses have used Wordpress for its flexibility and customisation. Yahoo, Wired, Pepsi and Harvard University have all used Wordpress to create blogs.
Wordpress relies a great deal on it's community to offer technical support and customisation through the development of plugins. By making it's code open source, anyone with some programming experience can contribute to the development of the Wordpress software. Many of these third party developers offer their work for free, or simply ask for donations from users. Through the loyalty of their community, Wordpress has been able to vastly expand the usability of their product.
While Wordpress offers free accounts, it makes revenue from premium subscriptions, as well as advertisements. A premium account offers a unique domain name, additional storage space, the removal of ads and added customisation options.
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