Comments on: What the WordPress Needs Now

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:29:20 +0000

Biggs: Yep, still a big fan of WordPress. They seem to have solved a good number of my complaints above in the interim, although they still have a number of shortcomings — especially if you’re trying to use WordPress as a CMS.

And if you do get around to reading my books, make sure to rate ‘em on GoodReads! (I’m a GoodReads Author, btw.)

By: Biggs

Biggs — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:27:32 +0000

Care to revisit this list now in 2010? I see you’re still using Wordpress so it must be working ok.

btw, I think I might read your books. Decently rated on goodreads.

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:04:05 +0000

i am worried about numbers 4 and 12 …
as you said … i need to think about backing up more frequently …
a good article …
appreciated …

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:02:33 +0000

Good point re the need for an occasional clean break, Al (the Second). I was pretty stunned when Apple managed to get away with it in OS X. I wish Microsoft wasn’t always so hung up on backwards compatibility too.

IMHO, things should never break in incremental upgrades (like 2.1 to 2.2) if at all possible. If you’re gonna make clean breaks, do it with a major point-oh increment.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:42:55 +0000

Oops, there are two Al’s here.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:38:31 +0000

Tagging will be built into wordpress 2.3.

When I attended Wordcamp recently, an update mechanism for plug-ins was discussed. They are working on it but I’m not sure if it is in 2.3 or not.

Backwards compatiblity: I hear ya since I’ve had stuff get completely broken before but, working in professional QA, compat is also one of the things that stops innovation in a lot of places. People get so mired in year after year of possibly insufficiently thought out design that they wind up in a box that they cannot get out of. I’d rather have them make a CLEAN break every so often (not every version) and move forward.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:00:25 +0000

Thanks, Al. I actually upgraded last night.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:20:48 +0000

Speaking about security, it looks like it would be wise to upgrade to 2.2.3 now instead of waiting for 2.3:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-223/

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:27:42 +0000

Thanks, King Rat. Haven’t gotten around to poking through the new features for 2.3 yet, but I’m definitely going to enjoy that tagging.

You’re definitely right about the documentation. I meant to include that as one of the things badly in need of an overhaul, but, well, I forgot.

By: King Rat

King Rat — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:21:18 +0000

Wordpress 2.3, slated to be released in a couple of weeks, will have built in tagging support. I’m looking forward to playing with it. I generally like categories, but I use my categories similarly to how bookstores do. So it works for me.

There are some pretty good plugins for multimedia. I think they don’t include them by default since multimedia users are a minority. Also for caching.

Their documentation is crap. That ought to be a beef right there on it’s own. I’ve poked around the design of the innards. It’s ugly. I’ve also examined the bug-handling process of the team. None of these things would have been acceptable at Expedia when I worked there, and we had some pretty bad software development practices.