With the expectations set for high speed, it is more important than ever to deliver fast website speeds. By Lane Joplin | July 23, 2013 Technology allows us to work at lightning fast speeds. We have the ability to connect, in an instant, to almost anyone in the world. We are able to multitask through multiple tabs in an internet browser. We can make a purchase through Amazon, and it will arrive in two days. These advancements in technology have set the expectation for consumer experiences to be fast and easy. With the expectations set for high speed, it is […]
Introducing Torque: Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, Today we are thrilled to be introducing Torque, the WordPress News Core. Our goal with Torque is to create a hub for community building and offer a forum for WordPress news. Dedicated entirely to the advancement of the WordPress ecosystem, Torque operates on the open-source philosophy that together, we can accomplish more than we can separately. We chose the name Torque because we were inspired by the power of tools to create greater motion and force. Our aspiration for Torque is for it to become a resource that propels our community to insightful thoughts, and to serve as […]
When Will the Stable Release of 3.6 Happen?
We can’t say for sure…but rumor has it that August will be the month. The first release candidate was made available to the public July 13, so developers have been sending in bug reports for weeks to help fix issues. The second release candidate just became available on July 24, and surely there will be more more issues to address, but now that the major setbacks have been figured out and the Post Formats UI and structured data has been completely removed, the stable release of WordPress 3.6 can’t be that far off. We are excited to see improvements in […]
Edge Case Hosting
“Why are they edge cases? Because they’re likely to happen in only the rarest of circumstances.” Leveraging the Pareto Principle Several years ago I was invited to assemble a team that would create a new version of an existing platform. It was a platform for car sales and real-time auctions – all for off-lease vehicles that companies like Ford Credit wanted to offload to their franchise dealers. We did what any smart team of software engineers did. We focused on the core features (the 20% that made up 80% of the use cases) in a way that would make Vilfredo […]
How Do We Keep WordPress Going Another Ten Years?
Chris Lema on optimizing the next ten years of WordPress. Donde está el baño? Tens of thousands of students in the United States walk into classrooms every Fall to learn a new language for the first time. It’s the first day of Spanish 101 or French 101 and all they know is if they practice enough, they may learn a new language. Unfortunately, the curriculum for those classes is always the same – as students learn some simple things first: like introducing themselves, or asking where the bathroom is. What happens next has been happening for decades. Armed with just […]

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