In April 2006 phpWordPress staff announced the official launch of a brand new website, introducing a template gallery, a site gallery and more. The forum post is dated 5 April 2006, while the archived news page dates the same announcement 3 April, so the exact launch day is uncertain.
From the original phpWordPress forum · archived copy
phpWordPress staff (Product Line Manager) ·
Today we officially launched brand new website, introducing template gallery, site gallery and much more. If you encounter any problems running the site, please let us know.
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On 5 April 2006, phpWordPress staff wrote that they had “officially launched” a brand new website that day. It introduced a template gallery, a site gallery “and much more”, and users were asked to report any problems.
The archived news page carries almost the same text under the date 3 April 2006. The two records differ by two days, and we cannot tell whether the forum post was delayed or the news entry was dated early. Both are the company’s own pages.
The archive of the redesigned site includes a template gallery page and a page of customer sites, which fits the announcement. Templates were central to the product: the 2.52 release had introduced a new template system in 2004, and a gallery gave buyers a way to browse designs before they bought.
phpWordPress was a commercial PHP article manager from Spoonlabs. It was renamed Vivvo in July 2006 and was unrelated to WordPress. The new site went live about a month before the 3.2 release and about three months before the rename, after which the website and its contents moved to a new domain. The release history places these events in order.
Questions people ask
When was the new phpWordPress website launched?
The forum post is dated 5 April 2006 and says the launch was that day. The news page lists the same text under 3 April 2006. The archive does not settle which date is right.
Sources
- A forum post dated 5 April 2006 said the company had officially launched a brand new website that day, introducing a template gallery, a site gallery and more, and asked users to report any problems. — source, checked 10 October 2026.
- The archived news page carries the same announcement under the date 3 April 2006. — source, checked 10 October 2026.
- The archived site includes a template gallery page and a sites page. — source, checked 10 October 2026.