CMS

Human Made’s latest Word on the…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Human Made's latest Word on the Future newsletter discusses the rise of Content as a Service (CaaS) and asks whether this trend is going to edge WordPress and other traditional CMS platforms out of the market. CaaS "is the ability…

Nathan Baschez wrote an insightful business-related…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Nathan Baschez wrote an insightful business-related post on the "lifecycle of a business." According to Nathan, businesses often are born simple, grow complex, and then die of something he calls “Complexity Convection.” Nathan argues this is a natural process that…

Blessing Krofegha demonstrates how to build…

Dan Knauss

April 17, 2020

Blessing Krofegha demonstrates how to build a web app with a headless CMS and React. He doesn't mention WordPress, but it's applicable — and worth reading if the general concept interests you.

If you like trying out new…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

If you like trying out new open-source CMS applications now and then, check out Django-based Wagtail, which Mozilla and Google are using. Wagtail is designed for headless deployments where the frontend pulls content from the CMS with GraphQL queries.

WPCampus released the results of the…

Dan Knauss

May 13, 2019

WPCampus released the results of the much-awaited Gutenberg accessibility audit. Tenon LLC conducted the tests and produced the report at the cost of $31,200. On top of donations raised by WPCampus, Automattic covered about two-thirds of that total. The testing…

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

BusinessHosting

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.

Muhammad Muhsin shares some lessons learned…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Muhammad Muhsin shares some lessons learned from pairing Gatsby with WordPress and why he thinks the two platforms are a good match: "it has the effect of leveraging the best of both worlds – the power of the CMS that…

I enjoy articles that make meaningful…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

I enjoy articles that make meaningful comparisons between WordPress and less well-known CMSes. In a worthwhile review, Leonardo Losoviz puts October CMS in the spotlight. October is five years old, free, and open source.

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

HostingPlanet

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2019

DesignPlanet

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, which is launching this year as an English language spinoff of the Dutch news site De Correspondent.

WordPress has reached 32% of the…

Dan Knauss

October 25, 2018

WordPress has reached 32% of the web according to W3Techs and remains just shy of 60% in CMS market share.

The importance of tinkering

Brian Krogsgard

October 19, 2018

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Justin Tadlock was the first person I really connected with in the WordPress community -- sometime back around 2008, if I recall correctly. I stumbled upon Theme Hybrid as someone looking to make a website, and I was off to…