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RE: Scouting Adventure - Game 48 - Day 43 (May 16, 2020)
Yeah, since WordPress is open source pretty much all hosting companies offer it now as a CMS, the crazy thing about it, it is only about 15 years old, since it is so simple to use I would not be surprised if in another 15 years over 90% of websites run on it.
WordPress.com is a little different, they offer hosting also, but they do charge extra for some features, they are the creators of the actual open source software though. The actual WordPress software can be run on any website host that wants to run it.
The background is just an mp4 file, cant remember exactly why I did that but I think it is because most website that use videos for their backgrounds use mp4 files and I think a gif would have actually been a bigger file size.
See... that's what I was attempting to say... Wordpress.com is NOT the same as wordpress.org... they are NOT the same people. Wordpress.org made wordpress. Wordpress.com simply took the software and began charging for the extra services. I don't remember where I read that; either on one of their websites or on Wikipedia.
Well technically they kind of are the same people, Matt Mullenweg is the creator of the open source WordPress software, he basically realized he needed to make money to keep WordPress going so he started a company called Automatic and WordPress.com where they started charging for additional hosting/features. But the actual core WordPress software, that they are still working on and updating, is always open source and free. Here is a good interview with him where he explains it
Oh wow! Thanks for finding that interview. Obviously the information I was repeating was incorrect (or I interpreted it incorrectly). That was really an interesting interview. I'm glad I brought it up so that you could set me straight. THANK-YOU! I would love to have a boss like him.
Yep, definitely seems like a great company to work for :)