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History of WordPress

WordPress has come a long way since 2003. What started as a few lines of code and a mission to build a better web has become a prevalent web platform and thriving community. Explore major releases below.

Since the very beginning, WordPress release names have been inspired by jazz artists, an ode to the spirit of collaboration, experimentation, and creative freedom at the heart of open source.

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Milestone Books

Explore WordPress’s first twenty years through Milestones and Building Blocks.

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Creative 3D Museum

Explore WordPress history through the fun 3D Museum built by the community.

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State of the Word

Since 2006, WordPress has hosted its annual State of the Word keynote.

Releases

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7.1

Responsive styles, Admin bar in every editor, Inline notes with mentions

August 19, 2026

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7.0

Design your navigation overlay, Modernized dashboard, Connectors hub for AI services

May 20, 2026

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6.9

Notes for block-level collaboration, Command Palette across the dashboard, Abilities API

December 2, 2025

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6.8

Refreshed Style Book, Speculative loading, Stronger password security with bcrypt

April 15, 2025

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6.7

Twenty Twenty-Five, Zoom Out view, Block bindings for custom fields

November 12, 2024

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6.6

Overrides in synced patterns, Rollbacks for plugin auto-updates, New page layout in the Site Editor

July 16, 2024

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6.5

Font Library, Interactivity API, Revisions for templates

April 2, 2024

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6.4

Twenty Twenty-Four, Pattern categories and filtering, Block Hooks

November 7, 2023

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6.3

Unified Site Editor, Command Palette, Footnotes and Details blocks

August 8, 2023

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6.2

Reimagined Site Editor, Style Book, Openverse media in the editor

March 29, 2023

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6.1

Twenty Twenty-Three, New templates, Fluid typography

November 1, 2022

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6.0

Style switching, Block locking, Improved List View

May 24, 2022

Full site editing, Twenty Twenty-Two, Navigation block

January 25, 2022

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5.8

Block-based widgets, Query Loop block, Template editing

July 20, 2021

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5.7

Simpler color palette, One-click HTTPS migration, Lazy-loading iframes

March 9, 2021

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5.6

Twenty Twenty-One, Expanded auto-updates, Application Passwords

December 8, 2020

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5.5

Block patterns, Block directory, Plugin and theme auto-updates

August 11, 2020

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5.4

Buttons and Social Icons blocks, Cleaner editor interface, Custom fields for menu items

March 31, 2020

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5.3

Twenty Twenty, Automatic image rotation, Admin email verification

November 12, 2019

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5.2

Site Health Check, PHP error protection, Plugin compatibility checks

May 7, 2019

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5.1

Site Health, Faster editor performance, Multisite metadata

February 21, 2019

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5.0

Block editor, Twenty Nineteen, Classic Editor plugin

December 6, 2018

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4.9

Scheduled Customizer changes, Code syntax highlighting, Gallery widget

November 15, 2017

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4.8

Media widgets, Rich Text widget, Nearby WordPress events

June 8, 2017

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4.7

Twenty Seventeen, Video headers, REST API content endpoints

December 6, 2016

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4.6

Streamlined updates, Native system fonts, Content recovery

August 16, 2016

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4.5

Inline linking, Live responsive previews, Custom logos

April 12, 2016

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4.4

Twenty Sixteen, Responsive images, Embed everything

December 8, 2015

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4.3

Menus in the Customizer, Formatting shortcuts, Site icons

August 18, 2015

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4.2

Press This, Emoji support, Theme switching in the Customizer

April 23, 2015

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4.1

Twenty Fifteen, Distraction-free writing, Log out everywhere

December 18, 2014

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4.0

Media library grid, Visual embed previews, Improved plugin search

September 4, 2014

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3.9

Improved visual editor, Drag-and-drop images, Live widget previews

April 16, 2014

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3.8

Modern admin design, Admin color schemes, Twenty Fourteen

December 12, 2013

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3.7

Automatic background updates, Stronger password meter, Better language support

October 24, 2013

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3.6

Twenty Thirteen, Revamped revisions, Post locking and autosave

August 1, 2013

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3.5

New media manager, Twenty Twelve, Retina-ready dashboard

December 11, 2012

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3.4

Theme Customizer, Twitter embeds, HTML in image captions

June 13, 2012

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3.3

Drag-and-drop uploader, New toolbar, Hover navigation menus

December 12, 2011

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3.2

Faster and lighter, Refreshed dashboard, Twenty Eleven

July 4, 2011

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3.1

Admin bar, Post formats, Network Admin

February 23, 2011

Twenty Ten, Custom menus, Multisite

June 17, 2010

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2.9

Trash and undo, Built-in image editor, Batch plugin updates

December 18, 2009

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2.8

One-click theme installs, Redesigned widgets, Syntax highlighting in the editor

June 11, 2009

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2.7

New admin interface, Comment threading, One-click plugin installs

December 10, 2008

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2.6

Post revisions, Press This, Theme previews

July 15, 2008

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2.5

Cleaner dashboard, Dashboard widgets, Multi-file upload

March 29, 2008

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2.3

Native tagging, Update notifications, Canonical URLs

September 24, 2007

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2.2

Widgets, Atom support, Blogger importer

May 16, 2007

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2.1

Autosave, Spell checking, Static front page

January 22, 2007

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2.0

Redesigned dashboard, Faster administration, WYSIWYG editing

December 31, 2005

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1.5

Pages, Theme templates, Comment moderation

February 17, 2005

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1.2

Sub-categories, Plugin architecture, Localization

May 22, 2004

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1.0

Search-friendly permalinks, Multiple categories, Comment moderation

January 3, 2004

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0.7

Links manager, XHTML 1.1 compliance, Manual excerpts

May 27, 2003