I thought I would take a look at how WordPress has changed over the years. For no reason, except because sometimes I can be an incredibly boring man. Over 5,500 files and 13 major releases of WordPress later, I’ve put together a video and some images of the changes to the WordPress login screen and initial page once logged in (now the Dashboard, but used to be the Write screen).
I was only unable to get version 1.2 working, though I didn’t try very hard to be honest.
A brief summary of the different versions of WordPress are listed below.
Version | Jazz Musician | Date of Release | Zip Size |
0.7 | Unnamed | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 | 224KB |
1 | Miles Davis | Saturday, January 03, 2004 | 271KB |
1.2 | Charles Mingus | Saturday, May 22, 2004 | 310KB |
1.5 | Billy Strayhorn | Thursday, February 17, 2005 | 346KB |
2 | Duke Ellington | Saturday, December 31, 2005 | 589KB |
2.1 | Ella Fitzgerald | Monday, January 22, 2007 | 829KB |
2.2 | Stan Getz | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 | 953KB |
2.3 | Dexter Gordon | Monday, September 24, 2007 | 0.99MB |
2.5 | Michael Brecker | Saturday, March 29, 2008 | 1.3MB |
2.6 | McCoy Tyner | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | 1.44MB |
2.7 | John Coltrane | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 1.76MB |
2.8 | Chet Baker | Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 2.23MB |
2.9 | Carmen McRae | Friday, December 18, 2009 | 2.39MB |
[Some info from the WordPress Roadmap]
I’ve also put together a couple of images showing the changes to the WordPress login screen and dashboard. Click on the images to enlarge, and depending on your browser you may have to click again to see it full screen:
To all geeks like me, enjoy!