phpwind (abbreviation: pw) is an open source community program based on PHP and MySQL. It is one of the most popular general-purpose forum programs in China. The first version of phpwind was released in 2004. As of December 2013, the phpwind project brand is owned by Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., and the software is fully open source and free. There are now more than 1 million websites using phpwind products, including nearly 100,000 active websites. Since the release of the PHPWind8. phpwind9.0, which is to be released in 2012, will adopt the Windframework framework independently developed by phpwind and integrate the community cloud platform application center based on Alibaba Cloud cloud computing architecture, which will provide more diverse solutions for the future community.
So far, among the 200,000 valuable small and medium-sized websites in the country, nearly 100,000 community websites use phpwind. A total of more than 1 million websites use phpwind, and 1,000 new websites use phpwind every day. These community websites cover 52 types of industries. Every day, 100 million people gather in the communities built by phpwind, publish 50 million new pieces of information, and visit more than 1 billion pages.
Among the 1,000 or so large communities with more than 300,000 daily PV across the country, more than 500 sites have chosen the website building software provided by phpwind, and have vigorously used its e-commerce and marketing online products including Tao Links, Tao Satisfaction, and Daily Yituan. Increase revenue for the website. Excellent partners, such as Xiamen Xiaoyu, Hualong Lane, Erquan.com, Kunshan Forum, Beihai 360, Huizhou West Lakeside, Huashang.com, etc.
phpwind has recently focused on strengthening the media value of the community and expanding the e-commerce applications of the community. phpwind focuses on exploring the value of small and medium-sized websites and integrating applications. We believe that websites are communities, and communities can provide a wealth of applications to meet people's daily needs for information, communication, entertainment, consumption, etc., gain a sense of belonging, and become people's online home. . With the development of the Internet, the form of the website will be more abundant, and it will integrate forums, information portals, social networking sites and other forms. We will integrate these applications into the product and create the most optimized user experience.
phpwind's mission is to make the community more valuable and allow more people to enjoy the convenience of the online community to improve the quality of life.