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WordPress

WordPress proper noun: a content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.

Proper noun

WordPress (uncountable)

  1. A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
    • 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

Noun

WordPress (plural WordPresses)

  1. (informal) A WordPress website.
    • 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...
    • 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., →ISBN, page 3

Forms of WordPress

pluralWordPresses

Origin of WordPress

From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast: He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!

Words formed from WordPress

Questions about WordPress

What does WordPress mean?
WordPress means a content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
What part of speech is WordPress?
WordPress can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near WordPress in the dictionary

  1. wordplayers
  2. wordplayfully
  3. wordplays
  4. wordpool
  5. wordpools
  6. WordPress
  7. WordPresser
  8. WordPressers
  9. WordPresses
  10. wordprocess
  11. wordprocessed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WordPress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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