WordPress en · NOUN
Etymology
From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast: He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!
Meanings
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(informal) A WordPress website.
Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses.
2011, Cory Doctorow, “On Jaron Lanier’s ‘Digital Maoism’”, in John Brockman, editor, Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 160:WordPress.com allows us to host WordPresses from all over the world and give people a really easy place to start.
2017, Elliott Adams, quoting Matt Mullenweg, The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Tech Startup, San Francisco, Calif.: Startup Mixtape Media, →ISBN, page 268:I mean, we met yesterday – how do I know he’s not some sociopathic stalker, or a blogger worming his way under my skin to get to the good dirt for his WordPress, or just a mean boy, a fuckboy, a softboy, a boy who’s going to ghost me after summer’s over.
2023, Amara Sage, “July” (chapter 8), in Influential, London: Faber & Faber Limited, →ISBN:According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are created every day (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/).
2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress®: Design and Development, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 3:Remember blogs? They were about before Tumblr turned up and turfed all but the most dedicated off their Wordpresses,^([sic]) and were more likely to be thematically concerned with Sarah Records or late 80s German centre backs than otherkins and sitcom reaction .gifs.
2015 August 12, Josh Baines, “Defending the Indefensible: How Blog House was Secretly Brilliant”, in Vice, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
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