UI Evolution Wordpress from 0.7 to 1.2
WordPress turned 10 and the name certainly doesn’t need an
introduction, especially to those who are involved in blogging.
WordPress has been one of the greatest tools a writer can have when it
comes to online publishing. It has certainly made its name over the
whole Internet, and helped bloggers and website owners to achieve their
publishing dreams.
Many popular websites rely on WordPress to reach out to their
audience. At the time of writing this article, the latest version of
WordPress has already reached over 28 million downloads. If you have ever wondered how WordPress got so big so fast, we’re going to take you through that journey right now.
In this post, I will talk about how WordPress turned from a simple tool for publishing thoughts online, to a CMS (Content Management System) as advanced as it is now. We’ll look specifically at how the WordPress Admin UI has changed since WordPress 0.71 until WordPress 3.5 and beyond.
This was the first version of the popular CMS, and it focused on simplicity. There is no dashboard to welcome you with your site stats or other information. Users can have three status modes for a post: ‘Publish’, ‘Draft’ and ‘Private’ for the first time.
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This makes it flexible for you to manage your posts by either saving
it for later, or publishing it right away. It didn’t have many features,
not like what we have today but back then, it was a gift to writers by Matt Mullenweg.
Released in 2004, this was the second major release of WordPress, and also the first version to be named after a jazz musician,Miles Davis, as we can see from the WordPress site itself: ‘WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music‘.
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This version of WordPress had some improvements to both UI and core
features as compared to its previous version. This was the first version
to allow users to assign multiple categories to their posts as well as creation of search engine friendly permalinks.
This version released in 2004 added a whole lot of features to WordPress and the Admin UI. For the first time, users can see the ‘Plugins’ section in the WordPress Admin UI, which is one of the best features of WordPress if you are the kind who like to expand your site’s capabilities without getting your hands dirty.
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Users were now able to create Sub Categories for arranging their posts systematically, and for styling, users can also create thumbnails for their posts in this version of WordPress.
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In this post, I will talk about how WordPress turned from a simple tool for publishing thoughts online, to a CMS (Content Management System) as advanced as it is now. We’ll look specifically at how the WordPress Admin UI has changed since WordPress 0.71 until WordPress 3.5 and beyond.
WordPress 0.71
Code name: Gold – Released date: 2003This was the first version of the popular CMS, and it focused on simplicity. There is no dashboard to welcome you with your site stats or other information. Users can have three status modes for a post: ‘Publish’, ‘Draft’ and ‘Private’ for the first time.
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WordPress 1.0
Code name: Miles – Released date: 2004Released in 2004, this was the second major release of WordPress, and also the first version to be named after a jazz musician,Miles Davis, as we can see from the WordPress site itself: ‘WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music‘.
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WordPress 1.2
Code name: Mingus – Released date: 2004This version released in 2004 added a whole lot of features to WordPress and the Admin UI. For the first time, users can see the ‘Plugins’ section in the WordPress Admin UI, which is one of the best features of WordPress if you are the kind who like to expand your site’s capabilities without getting your hands dirty.
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