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Human Made’s latest Word on the…

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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…

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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…

WordPress celebrated the 17th anniversary of…

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WordPress celebrated the 17th anniversary of its first release on May 27th. 🎉 Matt Mullenweg recalls, "The main feedback we got at the time was that the blogging software market was saturated and there wasn’t room or need for anything…

Blessing Krofegha demonstrates how to build…

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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.

Joost de Valk took another look…

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Joost de Valk took another look at CMS market share via W3Techs. He notes that WordPress and WooCommerce are growing, but Joomla and Drupal are losing market share. Currently, "Shopify is set to overtake Joomla as the #2 CMS in…

Joost de Valk has an analysis…

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Joost de Valk has an analysis of CMS market share numbers from W3Techs. Joost's key findings are: WooCommerce's market share is three times as big as Shopify, but Shopify is growing. If current trends continue, Shopify, Joomla, SquareSpace, and Wix…

If you like trying out new…

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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…

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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…

Muhammad Muhsin shares some lessons learned…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

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Brian Krogsgard

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.

Joost de Valk, who recently took…

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Joost de Valk, who recently took up the new role of Marketing Lead for WordPress, breaks down some of W3Techs' market share data and shares some important trends he's spotted. 📊 A key takeaway: "On the whole, Open Source market share is growing,…

WordPress has reached 32% of the…

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

The importance of tinkering

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Brian Krogsgard
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…
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