My Thoughts on the Current State of the WordPress Project
Sunday, November 15th, 2009For a very long time now, I have been a WordPress user. I have released free and paid themes, I’ve worked on a few different plugins, I’ve blogged about WordPress (Blogging Pro) and its community, and I’ve been part of two WordPress focused podcasts (WordPress Podcast and WordPress Weekly). I never reached the brand tie-in that many upper echelon WordPress fans have been able to reach, despite having been using the software, and touting its awesomeness for far longer than most. This limitation has been, in my mind due to my need to speak out on things that I find odd, unreasonable, and strange, as well as my inability to really connect with the people doing the amazing work behind the scenes.
My post today isn’t about my involvement with WordPress though. Instead it is about WordPress itself, and the unfortunate state of the WordPress community today. It isn’t the WordPress community of a few years ago. Things are a mess, and I feel like I need to stand up, one more time, and go over my thoughts on the current state of the WordPress project. (more…)
