WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.
When was WordPress released?
2003,
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/catalog. The software is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.
What is an action hook?
In WordPress theme and development, Hooks are functions that can be applied to an Action or a Filter in WordPress.