WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source

Welcome to the online repository for our book on the history and development of WordPress. Over the coming months you can follow the book as it evolves through extensive research and interviews with members of the WordPress community. By the time we have completed the first version, we hope to have created a narrative that will tell you the story of the first ten years of WordPress. Over the coming ten years that narrative will grow and change with WordPress itself. Our aim is to tell the story of WordPress, and to leave space for our story that is yet to unfold.

What's Happening

Check out the [outline of the book] (https://github.com/WordPress/book/blob/master/Plan/outline.md) to see what we've got planned, and check out the [list of interviewees] (https://github.com/WordPress/book/blob/master/Plan/interviewees.md).

Translations

To translate the book, please create a sub-directory of the project, giving it the correct ISO639 code (for example, pt for Portuguese), and submit a pull request. Note that the content is currently in flux so translations are not recommended until it is more stable.

Errata

If you come across any factual errors or typos, please submit an issue.

License

The book is licensed under:

• GPLv2
• Creative Commons Sharealike

Just like WordPress, you are free to read, share, distribute, and modify the book however you want, passing on those freedoms to everyone else. Cool!