VP of DevRel RapidAPI ❯ Award-winning Web Developer NodeCLI.com ❯ Google Dev Expert Web tech ❯ 2x GitHub Stars Award ❯ WordPress Core Dev ❯ TEDx Speaker ❯ "awesome example for devs" — Satya Nadella
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VP of DevRel (DX Eng., Content & Community) RapidAPI ❯ Google Dev Expert ❯ GitHub Star ❯ NodeCLI.com
As someone who spent the last 12 years with WordPress — contributing to most of the things like WordPress Core, default themes, it's REST API, and now Gutenberg — I think I can explain it very well.
WordPress is free
WordPress was the cool kid in town during the time of recession — we had our own open source version control setup with SVN and stuff (when I think there was no GitHub at the time)
WordPress has done open source right in many many ways — keeping things simple
WordPress has a huge market space — so many job opportunities and what not
Except for some #WPDrama the WordPress community is pretty awesome
I can't in my right mind ask a non-tech person to start a blog on Gatsby or anything similar (WordPress I can)
As a non-tech person, you can host, manage, maintain, and run a high traffic blog/site on this battle-tested platform. That's not true for almost any other new CMS out there.
Let me also add it's very cheap to do so, the support is not costly, you can probably find someone in your street who can handle things with WordPress :P
VP of DevRel RapidAPI ❯ Award-winning Web Developer NodeCLI.com ❯ Google Dev Expert Web tech ❯ 2x GitHub Stars Award ❯ WordPress Core Dev ❯ TEDx Speaker ❯ "awesome example for devs" — Satya Nadella
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Education
EE-CS Engineer turned Software Developer
Work
VP of DevRel (DX Eng., Content & Community) RapidAPI ❯ Google Dev Expert ❯ GitHub Star ❯ NodeCLI.com
Awesome! 💯
Good old times. A post about PHP Contact form I wrote had gone viral in 2006 and that's how I got into the web. Clients wanted me to build their contact forms.
In 2007, when Contact Form 7 was released (that's why it's called CF7) — I fell in love with how easy it was to build forms with WordPress.
And then I started building plugins coz that was the most exciting part of WordPress. Just search and then install it and you're good to go.
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As someone who spent the last 12 years with WordPress — contributing to most of the things like WordPress Core, default themes, it's REST API, and now Gutenberg — I think I can explain it very well.
WordPress has done open source right in many many ways — keeping things simple
WordPress has a huge market space — so many job opportunities and what not
Except for some #WPDrama the WordPress community is pretty awesome
I can't in my right mind ask a non-tech person to start a blog on Gatsby or anything similar (WordPress I can)
As a non-tech person, you can host, manage, maintain, and run a high traffic blog/site on this battle-tested platform. That's not true for almost any other new CMS out there.
Let me also add it's very cheap to do so, the support is not costly, you can probably find someone in your street who can handle things with WordPress :P
Hope some of it makes sense :)
Great answer. I also started using WP 12 years ago.
Awesome! 💯
Good old times. A post about PHP Contact form I wrote had gone viral in 2006 and that's how I got into the web. Clients wanted me to build their contact forms.
In 2007, when Contact Form 7 was released (that's why it's called CF7) — I fell in love with how easy it was to build forms with WordPress.
And then I started building plugins coz that was the most exciting part of WordPress. Just search and then install it and you're good to go.