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The Future of WordPress?

The Future of WordPress?

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by .

The final of our community series, slightly later than planned asks twenty one of the WordPress community what they think the future of WordPress should be. Again, in no particular order, here are the responses.

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Any Problems Facing WordPress?

Any Problems Facing WordPress?

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by .

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The third of four instalments of the “Why WordPress” series (parts ONE and TWO) asks the same groups of twenty one what problems they see facing the WordPress community at the moment. Like last time, some really interesting answers from the WordPress users, developers and designers.

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What Would You Change In WordPress?

What Would You Change In WordPress?

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by .

The second of a four part series which kicked off last Thursday with Why WordPress? Just as last time, RSS readers are missing out! Today the question twenty one of the WordPress community – developers, designers and bloggers – is answering is the question: You have the power. Second question. Hypothetically, you have the power to change one thing in WordPress. What would that be? As with last time, in no particular order, here are the responses: Strip out all of the worthless features and let plugin developers continue to improve ideas and innovate new ones. There is no reason for crap like post revisioning and image editing to be included in the WordPress core. Stick with the essentials, eliminate the fluff, and focus on optimization, security and performance. Basically, if I had the power, I would stop the bloat and eliminate the push for upgrades just for the sake of upgrades. Well, okay so that’s like two things, but it’s all kind of related. -Jeff Starr WordPress has about 2 major release per year if not more, this makes it outdated easier especially when it comes to API and hence the documentation of it in codex may not beContinue Reading

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