Hello, World!
My name is WordPress
I'm the open-source CMS behindone third of all the Internet sites.
I'm a complete framework formaking awesome websites.
But I haven't always been like this...
(Computer booting up)
(Typing)
WordPress was born as a fork of b2
an abandoned project for a simple tool for making blogs
At first, this small group of developers
limited themselves
to adding basic features as the experts--
resolving pending tickets
and simplifying upgrades
But soon, Plugins and Themes arrived
making WordPress much easier to use
and opening it to a wider public.
New functions were included
and WordPress changed to change
from being a small tool for making blogs
to a full fledged CMS
and a tool for making complete sites.
And even new advanced features
like widgets and taxonomies keep being added.
Most improvements were focused on
usability, in order to help an increasing
amount of non-technical users
with an increasingly polished and complete
admin panel, and creating
simpler interfaces for common tasks
like embedding objects.
Hey folks, this is Aidria, and I'm gonna
try this new OEmbed feature
with WordPress 2.9, you see
I'm running it right here.
Now, I've been using
Viper's Video Quicktags
for quite a while, but Viper also
made this OEmbed stuff too,
so look at that! Boom! It just sits
right in there.
And at the same time, making really
basic tasks like reordering menus much easier.
More advanced and complete themes
brought with them features
to compliment them--like the
Admin bar, the file management,
the customizer, or the integration
with native features, improving the way
you work with audio and video files.
(grunge party music playing)
As the project grew mature, a new, fast
development system was adopted--making
upgrades more frequent and major changes
less common...
(Spanish speaker)
...This brought parts of the dashboard
to the tool preventing
from receiving upgrades since 2013,
and leaving most changes to 2nd place,
while focus was still on final user features.
Then, one day we received an invite
to try something new.
WordPress 5 and the Block Editor were born,
surrounded by controversy.
At the same time, they marked a new
starting point to keep up making
awesome things with WordPress.
There is still a lot of work to do.
WordPress needs a community
of Developers more than ever.
And even if the small tool for making blogs
has grown, matured and changed,
it keeps a lot from it's origins inside.