Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

On WordPress And Democracy

WordPress Philosophy seems to indicate that all design decisions are ultimately run by the user base to get a “democratic” voting of what changes to implement or reject. However, the reality is far from that. Is WordPress missing a “voting” system?

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Adding A Central Autoloader To WordPress

Including an autoloader within WordPress is not an all-or-nothing endeavour. With a few simple changes, we can have a fully functional autoloader being loaded with WordPress, and we can start refactoring the existing Core code to gradually load more and more classes (and even functions) through the autoloader.

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Attracting Developers To WordPress

Ryan McCue, Senior Engineer at Human Made and WordPress Core Developer, has posted a series of tweets regarding the fact that WordPress is far from an ideal platform for developers, which has spawned a lot of discussion. https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/710464212183572481 https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/710469646680399874 As a long-form response to this, here’s a list of changes I would like to see in WordPress,…

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Is WordPress a Dependency?

I am currently on a quest to find the perfect setup for my WordPress projects (who isn’t, right?). I do think that a large part of what makes or breaks complex software projects is dependency management. And there are dependencies at every level of your projects, be they languages, libraries, servers, stakeholders, whatever. When someone…

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