2003
27
May
WordPress was released as a fork of b2/cafelog.
2003
01
May
b2/cafelog was estimated to have been installed on approximately 2,000 blogs.
2004
01
January
WordPress got a lot of new users after the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart.
2006
01
August
WordPress’ first event, WordCamp 2006, was held in San Francisco.
2008
01
January
WordPress won InfoWorld's "Best of open source software awards: Collaboration."
2009
01
January
WordPress won the Open Source CMS Awards's "Overall Best Open Source CMS."
2010
01
January
WordPress was reported to have enjoyed the greatest brand strength by Open Source.
2011
01
January
WordPress won digitalsynergy's "Hall of Fame CMS category in the 2010 Open Source."
2009
01
October
WordPress won InfoWorld's "Bossie award for Best Open Source Software."
WordPress was being used by approximately 60.8% of all the websites.