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WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence, WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.
If one person were to work on WordPress by themselves, it would take [them] 151 years of work to complete the project. Of course, there were many more people helping to build WordPress, but it's fun to think about how much went into the development of this software so many people use today. And to think they did it for free!
[...] It's hard to find a piece of software that is more influential than WordPress. It's used by millions of people all around the world, and because it's so good, and also because it's free, it will likely continue to be the CMS of choice for years to come. But no matter what happens, we can always be grateful for WordPress for making it easier for us to build websites, connect with one another, and turn the internet into what it was always meant to be: a safe space for free speech and uncensored self-expression.
Previously:
(2020-02-21) Hackers Exploit Critical Vulnerability Found in ~100,000 WordPress Sites
(2018-12-07) WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design
(2018-03-05) About a Third of All Web Sites Run on WordPress
(2015-12-28) Web Design Tools for Moderate Users
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Monday March 30 2020, @07:51PM (8 children)
Worst piece of shit software ever. Impossible to truly secure, ever.
This is the equivalent of putting on lipstick, bending over, liberally applying butter, and then yelling with a bullhorn for hackers to abuse your "ports" repeatedly.
I wonder what the actual costs are to business for using that hot mess. Off the top of my head I know two businesses that were down for over a month while their Wordpress sites were repeatedly hacked, over, and over again. They had to change three hosting providers before it stopped. For now.
The best recommendation for anyone regarding Wordpress is to turn around, and run, not walk, but run.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @08:01PM (1 child)
Was that a problem with Wordpress or with some extension to Wordpress?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ilsa on Monday March 30 2020, @08:52PM
Yes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @08:18PM (2 children)
Worst piece of shit software ever.
You say that like that's a bad thing.
(Score: 5, Funny) by edIII on Monday March 30 2020, @08:26PM (1 child)
It's only a bad thing for the people running it, I guess.
For hackers it must be like that Gary Larson cartoon, the one where the lion says "dibs" after seeing an incredibly fat Gazelle.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @08:28PM
Gov making gov. You Want gov making you into. Never it forget priorities.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday March 31 2020, @06:01PM (1 child)
Ever? I dunno. I can think of a couple that would rival, although the exact reasons might vary a bit. Windows 10 comes to mind. And I'm not a fan of systemd. But Wordpress is definitely worse than the Atari E.T. Game.
I can't quibble about anything else you wrote, though. It looks pretty spot on.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday March 31 2020, @08:04PM
Actually, you're dead wrong about the comparison to the Atari E.T Game.
200 years from now there will be a collector on a personal space ship showing off baseball cards and a fully working Atari 2600 with the E.T Game. Wordpress won't be cherished in the same way, and probably mentioned in a paragraph describing the complete lack of security in the early years of computing.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @01:29PM
Um, was meant originally as blogging software for noncommercial use and therefore shouldn't need high level security baked in? You know, when the Internet was a thing meant to foster communications between academic institutions and not for money to be directly made from.
You're more than welcome to build your own system. By the way, what system would you then recommend to be employed that is completely unhackable and as easy to deploy and use without hiring an IT staff or needing to outsource to reinvent the wheel? I await with baited breath.