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8.3.4 Example System: WordPress
It is worth taking a moment to look at the technical infrastructure of blog soware. We
will use WordPress as an example, since the soware is open source and therefore can be
reviewed quite easily by an interested reader. Although less open, other systems follow
broadly the same pattern.
Technically, WordPress is written in PHP
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with a MySQL database in support. Like
most CMS systems, WordPress is centred around the database and all the blog posts, com-
ments, tags etc. are stored in it (either on the user’s own server or at the hosted service). e
database consists of ten tables as can be seen ...