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title: "WordPress History"
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date: 2025-11-11
modified: 2026-02-17
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author: "cpsatinder"
description: "WordPress History Timeline The History of WordPress Explore the History of WordPress in a structured timeline layout and easily create blog post timeline sections to showcase milestones. Cool Timeline Pro..."
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---

# WordPress History

**WordPress History Timeline**

# The History of WordPress
Explore the History of WordPress in a structured timeline layout and easily create [blog post timeline](https://cooltimeline.com/doc/create-post-timeline/) sections to showcase milestones.

![cool-timeline](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/icon-cool-timeline-150x150.png)
### Cool Timeline Pro
[
Company History
](/demo/company-history-timeline/)
[
Daily Routine
](/demo/daily-life-routine-timeline/)
[
Holiday Itinerary
](/demo/holiday-itinerary-timeline/)
[
Work Experience
](/demo/work-experience-timeline/)
[

Buy Plugin
](/plugin/cool-timeline-pro/#pricing)

#### WordPress Is Turning 20

2023May 26, 2023
[20 Years of WordPress](https://cooltimeline.com/timeline/20-years-of-wordpress/)[![20 Years of WordPress](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/opengraph-scaled-1.jpg)](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/opengraph-scaled-1.jpg)
- Approx 810 million+ websites use WordPress, which is 43% of all the websites on the internet.
- There are around 60,000 free WordPress plugins in the WP plugin directory.
- I attended my 1st WordCamp @WordCampAsia #WCAsia along with @idavinder @isimrandeep @thewpweekly
- We celebrated the 20th anniversary of #WordPress, #WP20 – (https://twitter.com/satinderspace/)

2022May 19, 2022
[WordPress 6.0](https://cooltimeline.com/timeline/wordpress-6-0/)[![WordPress 6.0](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WordPress-6.0-Is-Here_-Style-Variations-Block-Enhancements-And-More.png)](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WordPress-6.0-Is-Here_-Style-Variations-Block-Enhancements-And-More.png)

WordPress 6.0 was released, introducing block patterns and improved accessibility.

2021May 13, 2021
[Full Site Editing](https://cooltimeline.com/timeline/full-site-editing/)[![Full Site Editing](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/full-site-editing-site-editor-1024x595-1.png)](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/full-site-editing-site-editor-1024x595-1.png)

A new templates feature was introduced along with several site-wide blocks allowing you to quickly developed site-wide templates in WordPress

With WordPress 5.7, dragging and dropping a block is easy.

2020May 08, 2020
[Automatic Plugin Updates](https://cooltimeline.com/timeline/automatic-plugin-updates/)[![Automatic Plugin Updates](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/plugin-enable-automaticupdates.jpg)](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/plugin-enable-automaticupdates.jpg)WordPress 5.5 was released, bringing improved site speed and new features like automatic updates for plugins and themes.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the shift of WordCamps and meetups to online events.

Images that load slowly were introduced.

2019May 10, 2019
[Critical Error Protection](https://cooltimeline.com/timeline/critical-error-protection/)[![Critical Error Protection](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/warning-message.png)](https://cooltimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/warning-message.png)Protection for the White Screen of Death by allowing users to log in securely in case of a critical error.

Obtaining Tumblr was done by Automattic.

Series D funding puts Automattic’s valuation at $3 billion.

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**Shortcode** (Above timeline uses this shortcode) :-

`
[[cool-timeline layout="default" designs="design-2" skin="default" category="wordpress-history" show-posts="5" order="DESC" icons="icon" animations="fade-up" date-format="F" story-content="full" based="default" compact-ele-pos="main-date" pagination="ajax_load_more" filters="no"]]
`