Definition of "WordPress"

In mid-1999 the first free build-your-own-web log tools began appearing and suddenly there were a large variety of easy to use blogging software to choose from including remote web log systems like Blogger a turnkey service offered by Google or stand-alone open source applications such as WordPress.

2004 October 14, Steve Lafontaine, “A brief history of blogs”, in North Bay Nugget, North Bay, Ontario, page B6

With the free Scripts Installer included in the Unlimited Hosting plan, customers can easily install a wide range of open source applications such as Wordpress,[sic] Joomla!, Drupal, PhpBB,[sic] Mambo, Php-Nuke,[sic] Zen Cart, Magento, just to name a few.

2010 February 25, “Doteasy Announces "US$5.95 Domain Name Registration with Free Web Hosting Services"”, in Business Wire, New York

With the new version of Virtuozzo’s Application Platform for WordPress, any service provider can offer cost-effective, enterprise-grade WordPress hosting with automatic deployment and scaling of WordPress websites, databases, CDN, security and associated software stacks, that can be controlled easily by the business user.

2023 April 19, “Virtuozzo Simplifies WordPress-as-a-Service for All Online Businesses”, in NASDAQ OMX, New York

Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses.

2011, Cory Doctorow, “On Jaron Lanier’s ‘Digital Maoism’”, in John Brockman, editor, Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, page 160

According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are created every day (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/).

2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress®: Design and Development, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 3

Remember blogs? They were about before Tumblr turned up and turfed all but the most dedicated off their Wordpresses,[sic] and were more likely to be thematically concerned with Sarah Records or late 80s German centre backs than otherkins and sitcom reaction .gifs.

2015 August 12, Josh Baines, “Defending the Indefensible: How Blog House was Secretly Brilliant”, in Vice‎, archived from the original on 2020-11-08

WordPress.com allows us to host WordPresses from all over the world and give people a really easy place to start.

2017, Elliott Adams, quoting Matt Mullenweg, The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Tech Startup, San Francisco, Calif.: Startup Mixtape Media, page 268

I mean, we met yesterday – how do I know he’s not some sociopathic stalker, or a blogger worming his way under my skin to get to the good dirt for his WordPress, or just a mean boy, a fuckboy, a softboy, a boy who’s going to ghost me after summer’s over.

2023, Amara Sage, “July” (chapter 8), in Influential, London: Faber & Faber Limited