WordPress is a blog publishing system (or a Weblog software) written in PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. It is a top-of-the line publishing platform emphasizing on advanced utility, web standards as well as aesthetics. Now a “blog” or weblog is a word used to describe websites that gather or collate and maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. Blogs can range from a wide variety of topics from politics to more personal subjects. To further enhance the entire feel of a blog, WordPress was introduced with the intent to build an elegant and well architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. B2/Cafelog was the precursor of WordPress and was also written in PHP. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.2.1, released on 21 June 2007. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg and Mike Little were co-founders of the project. The contributing developers include Dougal Campbell, Mark Jaquith, Donncha O’Caoimh, Andy Skelton, Michel Valdrighi and Peter Westwood.