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October 8th, 2008 by Dario Borghino
Used and loved by an ever-growing number of bloggers and website publishers all around the world, WordPress is a highly customizable PHP/MySql content management system which is particularly geared towards blogs, but is often used as a general website CMS as well because of its unique features.

A Bit of History

The WordPress project started in 2003 as a “fork”, or independent version, of b2/cafelog, a blog publishing system which had already reached a good following among webmasters, having being used on an estimated 2,000 sites.
In those years, the main competing product was the MovableType package, which is still widely used nowadays. However, the release of MovableType 3.0 in 2004 saw a contested change in their licensing terms, which placed a number of new restrictions, imposing fees for uses that were previously permitted free of charge.

This was a major factor in the surge in popularity of the completely free and open sourced WordPress, which quickly grabbed a considerable share of the CMS market. Having realized this, WordPress developers chose to widen the gap between the two even more by offering free blog hosting on their site, a marketing strategy that had proven very successful in the past.

In more recent times (2007), MovableType seemed to admit its own mistake and reverted to using the standard GNU Public License 2 (GPL2), thus licensing their product as open source and following the footsteps of their competitor, the now much more popular WordPress.

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