# WordPress

Open-source PHP content management system for websites and blogs, with a block editor, themes and plugins.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/wordpress/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://wordpress.org
- repository: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop
- docs: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/
- plugins: https://wordpress.org/plugins/
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wordpress.org
- mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@WordPress
- forum: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: WordPress open source community
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2003
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: cms
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 7.4
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: database
- databases: mysql, mariadb
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: php, block-templates-html
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: per-request
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: zip or tar.gz download, host one-click installers

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-2.0-or-later, GPL-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 7
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-06

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3487
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: 72008
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 2714694
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/WordPress/WordPress (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/WordPress/wordpress-develop (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/ (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainerType: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13166 (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/ (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ (read 2026-10-18)
- databases: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ (read 2026-10-18)
- adminUi: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ (read 2026-10-18)
- headlessApi: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/templates/introduction-to-templates/ (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/templates/introduction-to-templates/ (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/ (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/WordPress/wordpress-develop (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://wordpress.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/ (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://endoflife.date/api/wordpress.json (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/WordPress/wordpress-develop (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/?action=query_plugins&request[per_page]=1 (read 2026-10-18)
- pluginCount: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/?action=query_plugins&request[per_page]=1 (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

WordPress is a PHP content management system in which editors write pages and posts in a block editor, while themes and plugins extend the site. Block themes build templates from HTML files with block markup. The project was first released in 2003 as a fork of b2/cafelog. Content lives in the database, and a REST API gives applications access to it. Multisite is built in and is switched on in `wp-config.php`, so one installation can host a network of sites. The WordPress open source community maintains the project. Development happens in Subversion, and the GitHub repositories are mirrors.

## Worth knowing

Only the latest version is officially supported. The Security Team backports fixes to older branches as a courtesy.

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