When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack? I would argue otherwise.
There are many challenges for WordCamp organizers. One of those challenges if finding the right balance of speakers. That includes balancing topics, demographics and having a proper number of local speakers versus out-of-towners, and weighing pros and cons for each application — all without introducing bias. It can be tough, and sometimes controversial; and this…
Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address the pingback issues: “Include X-Pingback-Forwarded-For header in outbound WordPress pingback verifications.” “Add a pre-check for…
Meet Nathan Ingram: the creator of MonsterContracts, battle-tested contracts for WordPress client work.
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
Here’s an interesting and candid blog post on why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com’s VIP service for their site. I learned a few tidbits about VIP in this one.
Anyone involved in WordPress meetups will want to read this update from Jen Mylo.
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I just published a reaction that runs along similar lines http://www.peterrknight.com/is-wordpress-falling-behind-dont-believe-the-hype/