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Future of WordPress

What’s Next For WordPress?

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January 8, 2016

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In the tech world, we’ve seen it over and over again. Large, incumbent technologies and companies are overtaken by newer ones. And those older ones fall into near obscurity. It makes you wonder: what will happen to WordPress? Will something come along and uproot WordPress’s dominance or will it continue to take over the Internet? To truly understand the future direction of WordPress, we need to take a look at the main three end-users of WordPress: The Casual Bloggers/Hobbyists — These are the WordPress users who blog without any type of profit in mind. Most of the time, their blog […]

On the WordPress Content Modeling Problem

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July 22, 2014

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Last week, there was a bit of a stir regarding WordPress’s upcoming 4.0 release. Raelene Wilson started it off with a post about the “underwhelming” nature of the newest release, especially when looked at from the point of view of an average user. Pippin Williamson rebutted with a post on the importance of refinement in WordPress development, getting features 100% of the way there. Then came a sort of response from Chris Knowles outlining a roadmap of potentially more ambitious features. Many oft-cited questions came up again. Should WordPress remain backwards compatible? Does WordPress need a more refined vision? Is WordPress moving […]

How WordPress Could Power The New York Times

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June 24, 2014

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Last week, the New York Times gave us an inside look at their custom CMS, Scoop. Though a few NYTimes blogs run on WordPress, the main site is managed by a fairly massive custom effort. It got me thinking about how far WordPress has come in terms of managing complex websites and applications, and all of the work that still needs to be done. Data Management One of the major advantages of Scoop was its ability to store content and data in meaningful ways. This includes the basics like a robust tagging hierarchy but also the ability to store all […]

Beyond Blogs, WordPress for Enterprise: Highlights from WP Think Tank # 2

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May 30, 2014

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What happens when you put 8 smart WordPress people in a virtual room and ask them to wax lyrical about the future of WordPress? WP Think Tank # 2! The two-hour long panel featured amazing WordPress professionals engaging in meaningful dialogue about many of the issues that have been stirring in the WordPress ecosystem. The panel kicked off by addressing some of the challenges that WordPress businesses encounter when scaling their products or services to enterprise-level clients. They went on to discuss the positioning of WordPress, and what the future will bring for WordPress. To accompany the panel, there was a livechat where […]

A Review of WP Think Tank: The Future of WordPress

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February 28, 2014

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On Tuesday, WP Think Tank–hosted by Troy Dean–held an exciting discussion. The talk was orchestrated with the intention of having a long and meaningful discussion about the future of WordPress. The live panel included 8 well-known WordPress professionals who shared what they believe will happen to WordPress over the next 5 years. A live chat–filled with passionate WordPress users–simultaneously occurred with the panel. Chat participants were able to actively engage in the discussion by asking questions and sharing their WordPress knowledge and ideas. The chat provided valuable correspondence and interaction, and is still available for backread. The panel covered a variety of topics, […]

Who’s Watching WP Think Tank Today?

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February 25, 2014

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Troy Dean, Torque Contributor and host of the WP Elevation Podcast, has put together a fascinating group of speakers for a live panel that will be talking, in-depth, about the future of WordPress. At 12 noon Pacific, a handful of notable WordPress influencers will be discussing the opportunities and challenges faced by WordPress professionals. WP Think Tank will take place in a live Google Hangout where viewers will be able to interact, chat, and ask questions. Panelists include Matt Mullenweg, Jake Goldman, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Shane Pearlman, Tom Willmot, Miriam Schwab, and Scott Basgaard. This is sure to be an interesting talk! Tune in […]

CES 2014: From a WordPress Perspective

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February 6, 2014

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I recently spent 4 days in Las Vegas for CES 2014 and noticed a few technologies that—in my opinion—we in the WordPress community will want to actively monitor, as they could potentially affect the future of the platform. Reverse Responsive Design 2012 saw the push for responsive design in themes in order to accommodate smart phones that required developers to handle both touch events as well as different screen sizes and resolutions. By the close of 2013, it was practically impossible to find a theme that was not responsive (I say this jokingly), and mobile design was openly embraced by the WordPress […]

What is WordPress Lacking? A Template Language

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August 21, 2013

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Django, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Laravel, Drupal—what do these platforms have that WordPress lacks? A template language. This is where the “boo”s usually start. I’ve talked to many top people in the WordPress community who believe that the current PHP-based templating system is fine. Hard to disagree with them when WordPress powers nearly 20% of the web. But I’ve talked to just as many WordPress people who believe that there’s a major opportunity here. Theme code quickly turns to spaghetti because the PHP-based templating doesn’t have the guardrails to enforce structure or patterns. This makes it hard for most themes […]

You’ve been GPL’d!

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August 8, 2013

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What WordPress and WooThemes can learn from Linux History I’d like to tell you all a story to give some perspective on recent events that have happened in the WordPress community. Once there was a smart Founder who wanted to change the world. He was a scrappy and outspoken 20-something who decided to build his own Open Source Software (OSS) project with a few friends because he knew he could design something that was better than the competition. He chose principle over profit and picked an OSS license that would protect the community over even his own interests. He handed over […]

Samuel Sidler’s Improvement List

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July 23, 2013

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Samuel Sidler, brand new “Ninja Wrangler” for Audrey Captial, released a Digestable WordPress.org Project List. Let’s break his priorities down to the barebones for the sake of conversation: Ongoing Open Source Stats General Design Improvements   Immediate Increasing WordPress and WordPress.org participation Improving make.wordpress.org   Short Term Support and documentation hubs Profile improvements   Medium Term Themes Directory Redesign Improvements for the i18n Community Improve WordPress.org Home Page Support Forum Improvements   Long Term Plugin/Themes Directory Workshops (i.e. learn.wordpress.org) jobs.wordpress.net “Ideas” Improvements Mailing List Page Redesign     Thoughts? Reactions? Do you think he left anything out? 

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