WordPress

English

Proper noun

WordPress (uncountable)

1. A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
   • 2004 October 14, Steve Lafontaine, “A brief history of blogs”, in North Bay Nugget, North Bay, Ontario, page B6:

     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.

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

     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.

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

Derived terms

• WordPresser

Noun

WordPress (plural WordPresses)

1. (informal) A WordPress website.
   • 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, →ISBN, page 160:

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

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

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

   • 2015 August 12, Josh Baines, “Defending the Indefensible: How Blog House was Secretly Brilliant”, in Vice‎^[1], archived from the original on 2020-11-08:

     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.

   • 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, →ISBN, page 268:

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

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

     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.

Further reading

• WordPress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia