{"id":18240,"date":"2013-05-27T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18240"},"modified":"2013-05-27T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:58:05","slug":"happy-10th-birthday-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/27\/happy-10th-birthday-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 10th birthday, WordPress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress\/\">WordPress Day<\/a>. \u00a0Thousands and thousands of people gather in hundreds of cities and towns all over the world to celebrate WordPress&#8217;s 10th birthday. \u00a0In 10 years, WordPress went from just another PHP application for bloggers to a feature-rich platform that runs a huge chunk of the Web. \u00a0WordPress came a long way, grew and matured. \u00a0As did the community (of which I am a proud member) that developed, designed, translated, documented, optimized, argued, sponsored, tested, troubleshooted, and generally improved the system in so many different ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/27\/happy-10th-birthday-wordpress\/wordpress-10-years-old\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?fit=960%2C127&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,127\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wordpress 10 years old\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?fit=660%2C87&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18242\" alt=\"wordpress 10 years old\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old-500x66.png?resize=500%2C66&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?resize=500%2C66&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?resize=510%2C67&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?resize=710%2C93&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wordpress-10-years-old.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big thank you goes to each and everyone involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Auttomatic<\/a> and all those gadzillion projects. \u00a0But, I also want to specially thank <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a>, without who, I think WordPress wouldn&#8217;t be the same, if it would be at all. \u00a0Thanks man, you are an inspiration to many. \u00a0Keep it up and happy birthday.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: As I was writing this post, I realized that there was no meetup organized in Limassol, so, albeit with a very short notice, let&#8217;s get together and have a pint at Alio Olio after work. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be there from around 5:30 until whatever. \u00a0Here is a quick link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress\/Lemesos-CY\/956912\/\">Meetup event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today is the WordPress Day. \u00a0Thousands and thousands of people gather in hundreds of cities and towns all over the world to celebrate WordPress&#8217;s 10th birthday. \u00a0In 10 years, WordPress went from just another PHP application for bloggers to a feature-rich platform that runs a huge chunk of the Web. \u00a0WordPress came a long way, &hellip; 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