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On a recent episode of the WordPress podcast, The DradCast, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said that “when you think about it, we’re kind of building a web operating system.” This remark mirrored statements he made in last year’s State of the Word address about making WordPress into a foundation for mobile apps. Not only has WordPress itself evolved into a more suitable tool for app development, but there’s also a slew of new plugins and services available that make it even easier to build web and mobile apps. Thanks to these developments, WordPress is a relatively easy and affordable option […]

As much as version control has been an integral part of the core development of WordPress for quite some time, it has never been easy to integrate proper version control into the platform. As the complexities of web development have increased, version control has become ubiquitous on both the front end and the back. But managing databases, theme files and plugin settings across distributed teams is still a challenge. That’s why developers Borek Bernard and Jan Voráček began work on VersionPress, a version control system for WordPress. VersionPress approaches the problem by storing both your database and files in a […]