We’ve been working on a new book about the history of WordPress drawing on dozens of interviews with the original folks involved and extensive research. It’s not ready yet, but for the tenth anniversary of WordPress we’d like to make a chapter available, On forking WordPress, forks in general, early WordPress, and the community, which you can download below in the following formats:
Jazzers and Release Dates
WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and all our major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians we personally admire. Here’s a list of releases and the musicians they were named for. You can listen to a Last.fm station of all the musicians we named a release for.
| Version | Musician | Date |
|---|---|---|
| .70 | No musician chosen. | Мамыр 27, 2003 |
| 1.0 | Miles Davis | Қаңтар 3, 2004 |
| 1.2 | Charles Mingus | Мамыр 22, 2004 |
| 1.5 | Billy Strayhorn | Ақпан 17, 2005 |
| 2.0 | Duke Ellington | Желтоқсан 31, 2005 |
| 2.1 | Ella Fitzgerald | Қаңтар 22, 2007 |
| 2.2 | Stan Getz | Мамыр 16, 2007 |
| 2.3 | Dexter Gordon | Қыркүйек 24, 2007 |
| 2.5 | Michael Brecker | Наурыз 29, 2008 |
| 2.6 | McCoy Tyner | Шілде 15, 2008 |
| 2.7 | John Coltrane | Желтоқсан 10, 2008 |
| 2.8 | Chet Baker | Маусым 11, 2009 |
| 2.9 | Carmen McRae | Желтоқсан 18, 2009 |
| 3.0 | Thelonious Monk | Маусым 17, 2010 |
| 3.1 | Django Reinhardt | Ақпан 23, 2011 |
| 3.2 | George Gershwin | Шілде 4, 2011 |
| 3.3 | Sonny Stitt | Желтоқсан 12, 2011 |
| 3.4 | Grant Green | Маусым 13, 2012 |
| 3.5 | Elvin Jones | Желтоқсан 11, 2012 |
| 3.6 | Oscar Peterson | Тамыз 1, 2013 |
| 3.7 | Count Basie | Қазан 24, 2013 |
| 3.8 | Charlie Parker | Желтоқсан 12, 2013 |
| 3.9 | Jimmy Smith | Сәуір 16, 2014 |
| 4.0 | Benny Goodman | Қыркүйек 4, 2014 |
| 4.1 | Dinah Washington | Желтоқсан 18, 2014 |
| 4.2 | Bud Powell | Сәуір 23, 2015 |
| 4.3 | Billie Holiday | Тамыз 18, 2015 |
| 4.4 | Clifford Brown | Желтоқсан 8, 2015 |
| 4.5 | Coleman Hawkins | Сәуір 12, 2016 |
| 4.6 | Pepper Adams | Тамыз 16, 2016 |
| 4.7 | Sarah Vaughan | Желтоқсан 6, 2016 |
| 4.8 | Bill Evans | Маусым 8, 2017 |
| 4.9 | Billy Tipton | Қараша 15, 2017 |
| 5.0 | Bebo Valdés | Желтоқсан 6, 2018 |