{"id":590,"date":"2023-05-31T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2023-05-31T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:09:58","slug":"happy-birthday-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/happy-birthday-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Happy Birthday to the #1 Content Management System (CMS), WordPress.&nbsp; On its own, it has far greater coverage than all the other CMS put together.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">20 years ago this month, WordPress was born.&nbsp; A fork from a previous project saw it rapidly take off and become one of the guiding lights of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web 2.0<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Starting out as a simple blogging platform, anyone who has had exposure to WordPress since then knows how far it has developed.&nbsp; Each new version adding more features, additional capability and an improving user interface.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">QD Design have followed this development when WordPress became our CMS of choice in 2015. The changes we have seen in 8 years are astonishing; goodness only knows what the future holds for WordPress.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Why should you use WordPress? Good question!&nbsp; WordPress balances the competing priorities of ease of use with flexibility and capability.&nbsp; Some CMS tools are easy to use but have limited capability and minimal flexibility in what they can do (yes, Squarespace I do mean you).&nbsp; WordPress is equally at home powering a personal blog as it is representing a small business or even running a holiday rental platform.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">If you are finding your current website platform restricting, talk to us at QD Design about moving to WordPress.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/#contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get in touch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to the #1 Content Management System (CMS), WordPress.&nbsp; On its own, it has far greater coverage than all the other CMS put together. &nbsp; 20 years ago this month, WordPress was born.&nbsp; A fork from a previous project saw it rapidly take off and become one of the guiding lights of web 2.0. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/happy-birthday-wordpress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday WordPress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qd-design.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}