WordPress In this WordPress tutorial, you will find everything you need in order to create a website with WordPress. From installation to backups – we have it all covered. Be sure to check out the list of our newest WordPress tutorials at the very bottom of this page. WordPress first saw the light of day on May 27, 2003. The founders are Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress can be referred to as an online, open source site building tool based on PHP and MySQL programming languages. In more advanced terms it is called a content management system (CMS). When WordPress was first launched it had several users but over time grew into the biggest and most popular CMS in the world. Today, WordPress is powering over 75 million websites.