ByBrian Krogsgard
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David Hayes examines what facets of WordPress’s ecosystem led to its marketshare and overall success. Among the reasons, David lists that WordPress “did start early” (when there weren’t a thousand CMS options to choose from) and credits Matt Mullenweg for his passion and overall being a good force for WordPress. David also mentions the GPL, WordPress target audiences, ecosystem, and the community.
In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource — for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way to browse thousands of themes they can use on their websites for free. The notion…
Phew, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don’t work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com revamp of editing tools, both for web and the new desktop app. I interviewed Matt…
I really enjoyed a throwback piece on Nieman Lab today, where Joseph Lichterman reminisced with some New York Times folks about the earliest blogs at the Times (which have run on WordPress since their inception). Blogs have had a roller coaster ride at the Times. They ramped up a ton of them, and now are on…
At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 – one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?
Rich Tabor says the arrival of the Full Site Editing experience in WordPress 5.9 is the biggest innovation since themes first emerged. Why?
Benedict Evans says the network is far more important than the publishing tool, “you want to be part of a network – a platform – of some kind, not just a publishing tool. A platform can create new revenue models where a CMS cannot.” He says the web is a filter just like Facebook because…
