A look into the history of WordPress user interface
A look into the history of WordPress user interface
WordPress powers a vast number of websites around the globe. This content management system has made it very easy for non-developers to manage a website. Therefore, almost anyone with little knowledge of Web development can use WordPress very easily. Typically made for blogging websites, WordPress runs approximately one-third of the total websites, 75 million websites, including large multinational corporation websites and small business websites.
Henceforth, the WordPress user interface has been changing a lot since its first launch to provide its consumers with better options.
WordPress was launched in 2003 as a substitute to the b2/catalog. Two users of the b2/catalog, Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg, couldn’t stand that b2/cafelog was just discontinued. Hence, they built WordPress on top of the b2/catalog and released the first version of WordPress on 27 May 2003.
Let’s take a look at how the user interface has evolved through time.
WordPress 0.71
Named as Gold, the first version of WordPress was as simple as it could be. With no dashboard, the WordPress user interface landing page was the write post. It offered three main options for posts, Private, Post, and Draft. The Web design was very simple.
WordPress 1.0
Miles was the second major version of WordPress released in 2004, named after the musician Miles Davis. The better user interface offered the users an option to assign categories to their posts and create search engine-friendly permalinks.
WorPress 1.2
Mingus version offered the plugin section for the first time in 2004. It allowed the users to arrange their posts in subcategories and thumbnail creation.
WordPress 1.5
Strayhorn in 2005 brought the most groundbreaking WordPress user interface evolution ever. WordPress 1.5 brought the Dashboard in 2005 to its users. Now, the login page landed on the Dashboard rather than the post page. Furthermore, with this version, you could switch the tabs between creating a post or page.
WordPress 2.0
Duke, released in 2005, brought a complete facelift to the web design in the admin panel with shades of blue rather than white and grey. Furthermore, it also had the TinyMCE editor, and it offered the option to upload images to posts, themes preview with screenshot.png. Moreover, WordPress also incorporated AJAX in Duke.
WordPress 3.2
Moving ahead to the major changes, we land on Gershwin,2011. Here, the user interface was redesigned with the fastest panel. Furthermore, it offered a full-screen editor as well as one-click addition of new users and posts.
WordPress 5.0
WordPress 5.5 Eckstein is the latest version came in August 2020. However, the major WordPress User Interface changes came with Bebo, 5.0. In December 2018, Bebo brought us the most popular block editor, Gutenberg.
