What does "wordpress" mean?
A WordPress website.
Wordpress
name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A WordPress website.
- Grammar: wordpress is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: blog platform, cms, content management system, hosted platform.
- Useful contrasts: closed source system, hand coded site, proprietary platform.
- Usage evidence: You’ve given me access to the Wordpress Dashboard, but what I need is an FTP account.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A WordPress website. informal
"Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses."
Proper Noun
- 1 A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs. uncountable
"In mid-1999 the first free build-your-own-web log tools began appearing and suddenly there were a large variety of easy to use blogging software to choose from including remote web log systems like Blogger a turnkey service offered by Google or stand-alone open source applications such as WordPress."
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
closed source systemhand coded siteproprietary platformself hosted WordPress
Example
"You’ve given me access to the Wordpress Dashboard, but what I need is an FTP account."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "wordpress"?
Common synonyms include: blog platform, cms, content management system, hosted platform, hosted wordpress service, open source project.
How do you use "wordpress" in a sentence?
You’ve given me access to the Wordpress Dashboard, but what I need is an FTP account.
Etymology
From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast: He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!