About the Project

Historic WordPress provides static, browsable demonstrations of what WordPress looked like in the early days of its development. From the humble b2/cafelog fork at version 0.71 to the polished admin interface of 2.7, each version is preserved as a navigable snapshot.

For security reasons these are static HTML representations rather than live installations, but most internal links still work so you can navigate through the old admin panels and frontend themes just like the real thing.

Versions Preserved

• WordPress 0.71 Gold — May 27, 2003. The very first release, forked from b2/cafelog.
• WordPress 1.0 Miles Davis — January 3, 2004. Introduced the famed 5-minute install.
• WordPress 1.2 Charles Mingus — May 22, 2004. Plugin architecture arrives.
• WordPress 1.5 Billy Strayhorn — February 17, 2005. Themes and static pages debut.
• WordPress 2.0 Duke Ellington — December 31, 2005. WYSIWYG editing and user roles.
• WordPress 2.1 Ella Fitzgerald — January 22, 2007. Autosave and tabbed editor.
• WordPress 2.2 Stan Getz — May 16, 2007. Widgets and Atom feed support.
• WordPress 2.3 Dexter Gordon — September 24, 2007. Tags and update notifications.
• WordPress 2.5 Michael Brecker — March 29, 2008. Redesigned admin dashboard.
• WordPress 2.6 McCoy Tyner — July 15, 2008. Post revisions and theme previews.
• WordPress 2.7 John Coltrane — December 10, 2008. Modern admin UI and plugin installer.

Contribute

The project is open to contributions. If you'd like to add newer versions or improve the existing archives, submit improvements to the GitHub repository: