# WordPress

Standing (still-up). Founded 2003-05-27.
Site: [wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org)

Forked from b2/cafelog, 27 May 2003. The boring majority of the web.

## Why it lasted
- It still runs a huge fraction of the public web, including the sites of people who mock it.
- The plugin economy is a jobs program. That many livelihoods will not migrate on a tweet.
- Gutenberg was supposed to split the community. The community complained and kept publishing.

## Near deaths
- Movable Type's licensing shock in 2004 handed WordPress the bloggers. That was the original near-death of someone else.
- The 2024 Automattic / WP Engine war made the governance look brittle. The CMS kept serving pages.

## What would finish it
- A default website that is not WordPress for small businesses (Squarespace, Webflow, a vibe-coded stack) finally showing up in the market-share line.

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