Comments on: Where did WordPress go wrong?

By: Forest

Forest — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:00:47 +0000

I think Wordpress is mostly better but do sometimes miss the functionality of blogger… just open and blog, simple.

Great post, cheers.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:36 +0000

I’ve actually toyed with the idea of a fork of Wordpress, based on 2.3. Anyone else interested in such a project?

By: bloglancer.net

bloglancer.net — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:09:11 +0000

Where did WordPress go wrong?…

A brief review of the latest Wordpress version, 2.6 and its bug fixes and new features. Is fixing the bugs an opening hole in the security of a Wordpress driven site? This reminds me to never publish the version of Wordpress I’m using on my sites….

By: John Leavitt

John Leavitt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:13:08 +0000

If you want to stop the revision bloat, I wrote a tiny little plugin called No Revisions that turns them off. Otherwise, I haven't (yet) had any real problems with 2.6. Time will tell, I suppose.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:50:23 +0000

Hi Sephy,

Seems like some serious problems. I’m glad that I have a policy of hanging of upgrades until I see the fallout!

I find it interesting that in the past they seemed to have an idealogy of keeping the WordPress core lean, then people could add the functionality they wanted by adding plugins. Now they seem to be adding a lot of extra stuff to the core and bloating as Lester says…

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:35 +0000

Though my blog is always on the bleeding edge of upgrades, I have to agree with you on this. I feel obligated to upgrade every time since support for older versions is dropped so quickly. Usually this doesn’t break anything, but there is always a chance that the upgrade will bring down your site. That’s why having a good staging, production, and backup system in place is probably one of the most important thing in webmastering a website. Once in place, you can test out the upgrade on your staging site before making it live. And if you find bugs after going live, you can restore from your (hopefully automated) backups.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:02 +0000

Nice to see am not alone in my sentiment on WP. Love the platform but damn it! It is getting too much like freaking Microsoft. Bloated and too often insecure coding.

Cheers

By: Rhys

Rhys — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:15:39 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on this one Snoskred!

“More is Better” is a fallacy that afflicts all software makers it seems. Can’t resist adding another bell and another whistle to make it ‘more attractive’. ‘More attractive’ is often counterproductive, and the new features, especially anything that contributes to data bloat, should be optional extras that can be turned on or off in the control panel.

Most of us just want to get on with it with the least number of distractions, and I find all this logging into every blog every time quite irritating!

However, got to give the up-graders a 10 for trying!

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:49:36 +0000

Thanks for the link love!

I agree with you that the WordPress developers are just releasing new versions for the sake of it, and way to fast as a matter of fact. As for the support forums, they are definitely not the best place to get yourself some help, I’ve tried and failed many times

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:23:44 +0000

WP is getting way too bloated. I think they should have a branch called WordPress lite similarly on how they branch out WPMU.