Today marks the fifth birthday of Wordpress, possibly the largest blogging platform on the web.

It all started back on May 27th 2003 with the release of version 0.7. It was about 12 months on from there that I started to use Wordpress on a regular basis myself, running a now-long-forgotten security blog. Having used WP from that early stage, it’s been fantastic to see the blogging platform change and evolve on all points aesthetic, technical and functional.

The Wordpress community continues to grow with more people than ever offering free themes and plugins, Wordpress support, while premium Wordpress development has been able to create steady income streams for many a theme developer.

If you’re new to Wordpress altogether, check Wordpress.com to sign up for a free hosted blog, or visit Wordpress.org to download your own copy to install on a server.

For those of you living in or willing to travel to San Francisco, there’s a 9pm kick off for a party at 111 Minna with more details available here.

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