![]() No developer wants to invest time in a resource that’s incredibly hard to work with. It won’t “collapse” as in all sites stop working, rather the developer ecosystem will collapse because nothing new is being done in Wordpress because the maintainers keep making the system harder and harder to work with by adding patch upon patch without addressing fundamental infrastructural issues. None of them are going away, they will each find their niche the point I was making is that Wordpress is forever going to be the lowest-value offered solution. Not disagreeing about the footprint of Wordpress, but I’d argue that the level of technical complexity / difficulty on the average Wordpress site is dramatically lower than that of the average Drupal site (given same resources and time). Would you want a developer spending 5 hours building out relatively complex backend logic in Drupal, or 5 hours for a Wordpress developer to sift through legacy code that was written in 2010, and then 5 more hours actually developing? Right, a tenth of the install base but consider value delivered per development hour for Wordpress vs other systems. which was the whole point of Wordpress in the first place.Įventually, it’ll collapse unless they revamp the whole product, which implies that all their customers need to revamp their sites, which will never happen. The problems you’re describing are essentially the cost associated with never deprecating code Wordpress is getting to the point where at scale, it is unmanageable for developers, which makes it unmanageable for content creators. Word press used to be easy for content developers. The issues you’re describing are a ramification of the technical debt / shoddy ecosystem that Wordpress has accrued. It has a lot of mass so it keeps moving forwards and continues to dominate the market because it is ‘easy’ for content managers to use but a nightmare for developers. If you wish to post something of that nature we suggest you check out 's paid services job board Our Friendsĭrupal is a more complex system with more moving parts for both developers and content managers. Friday: Useful things to know - Things you wish you had known earlier about Drupal.Thursday: Development questions & discussion - Coding questions go here.Wednesday: Contrib modules chat - Talk about recently tried modules, recommendations, warnings, etc.Tuesday: Triumphant Tuesday - post recent Drupal successes and site launches.Monday: Beginner questions - no question is too easy.Would you or someone you know make for an interesting Drupal AMA? Message the mods. When would you like to start? Let us know!. ![]() Mike Gifford (Accessibility Core Maintainer Drupal 8) – Click Here.The place for news, articles and discussion regarding one of the top open source (GPL) CMS platforms: Drupal. Check out the sidebar for our AMA schedule, or view our past AMA's.
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