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WordPress

Where it comes from

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!

proper noun

  1. uncountable 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.

noun 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.

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Closest in meaning: blog, mastodon, moodle, mysqler, mainspace, miliblog, megapost, mevn, modmail, mastodonian, meta, module, miliblogger, metacontent, milblogger, mean

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name WordPress

עבריתווֹרְדְפְּרֵס wórdpres

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MLA

"WordPress." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/wordpress. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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WordPress. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/wordpress

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"WordPress." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/wordpress.

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@misc{wordpress_2026,
  title = {WordPress},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wordpress},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}