1.4. Ready to Press On

Well, that’s a whole bunch of stuff we just covered, huh? We looked at a brief history of modern web development, from its origins through the development of mature content management systems, as well as how Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little brought WordPress into being. We also covered the way the WordPress community works due to its core developers and contributors, as well as the general development community that creates and supports both free and premium plugins and themes.

We discovered the most common uses for WordPress, the general approaches to take to accomplish a particular type of project, and when you’re better off looking in a different direction for a solution to a web application. Finally, you should now have at least one WordPress installation up and humming along nicely, and an army of resources where you can go to find help. So, with all that said and your shiny new WordPress site at the ready, let’s jump on in and have a look around, shall we?