WordPress 1.0 was released January 3, 2004. Named for Miles Davis.
Changelog
- Released January 3, 2004
- Dev blog announcment
With the 1.0 release WordPress added features to match the best tool in the market at that time, which was Movable Type. A fairly ambitious release schedule during the holidays meant that 1.0 had a few significant bugs that weren’t caught in testing.
Features
- Search engine friendly permalinks (using mod_rewrite)
- Multiple categories
- Much simpler installer
- Comment moderation
- XFN support
- Atom support
- Edit this page/comment links
- Trackback on edit
- Attach XML URIs to links
- Movable Type import
- Textpattern import
Fixes
- Consistent naming structure and vision