WordPress is one of the most widely used systems for content management and more worldwide. Version 5.8.3 was released during the night. If automatic updates are activated, the current version of WordPress should already be installed, alternatively, you should make sure that you install the update as soon as possible. 4 security problems affect WordPress versions between 3.7 and 5.8. If users haven’t updated to 5.8 yet, all WordPress versions since 3.7 have also been updated.
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WordPress (WP, WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP[4] and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. WordPress was originally created as a blog-publishing system but has evolved to support other web content types including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems (LMS) and online stores.
One of the most popular content management system solutions in use, WordPress is used by 42.8% of the top 10 million websites as of October 2021. WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, American developer Matt Mullenweg and English developer Mike Little, as a fork of b2/catalog. The software is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.
To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server, either part of an Internet hosting services like WordPress.com or a computer running the software package WordPress.org in order to serve as a network host in its own right. A local computer may be used for single-user testing and learning purposes.