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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: 4, Informative) by RS3 on Tuesday March 31 2020, @12:31AM (2 children)
> Some examples would help.
You must be new to 'net discussions!
The original "blog" server (WordPress) I inherited in 2008 was pretty far out of date. There was no overlap between me and the previous admins, and I'm not sure how much time passed. The only bug I saw, and this might have been WordPress v1.xx, had something to do with hackers creating /tmp files, and trying to fill the system hard drive.
It's all coming back to me as I type... one of the blog customers was complaining about some problematic behavior, and I did notice lots of /tmp files. Fortunately that HD had been partitioned into (too) many partitions, and /tmp was on its own partition. It could fill and you could easily recover the system, but it never got that bad. The whole machine needed lots of updating, so I started from scratch. Literally no problems with WordPress or plugins or themes that I can remember. I do all the server and WordPress "backend" admin, but not site design, and not most of the frontend admin unless I need to. Some of the popular plugins include: ml-slider, jetpack, subscribe2, noaa-weather, several of the "woocommerce" line, wp-forecast, a personal favorite: wptouch (makes websites look and work well on phones / tablets / touchpads), contact-form-7, wppizza, and a bunch more.
I never let WordPress update anything. That involves giving ftp credentials to WordPress and that's where I draw the line. It's pretty easy to update the plugins, themes, and WordPress itself, and I wrote simple scripts to do the actual delete-old-plugin and copy in new one.
What I will complain about (and there's some rude idiot AC who recently bitched and moaned that I bitch and moan!) is the inefficiency of the interpreted php code. But, there are several caching plugins that seem to work. They try to keep binary php interpreter outputs, and it does help. I could write more but I'll let it go for now.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2020, @06:38AM (1 child)
I think a lot of the problem is that many people don't understand this stuff. That is why the pay someone else to do so. The problem is that many of them only understand "cheap" or "big name." So they go with cheap hosts, or well-known hosts that host for cheap. Both of those usually make you end up in the situation where the host is using an out of date install on a PHP server that is also out of date. Then, you combine their propensity to blindly follow Google results telling them their solution to "$Problem Wordpress" is to install some well-known WordPress plugin or theme (if they are lucky to not click on a shady one).
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 31 2020, @03:47PM
> I think a lot of the problem is that many people don't understand this stuff. That is why the pay someone else to do so.
Well that makes perfect sense, and dovetails with the many stories about the too many cheap crap hosting companies who don't do good systems admin. And possibly incompetent, lazy, inept, overworked, etc., systems admins. And my biggest rant/gripe looking back over my entire career: too many technical decisions made by completely incompetent business-types who usually have very bad prioritization- usually short-term profit only.
But WordPress shouldn't get the bad rap. Yes, again, early on (13 years ago) they had some problems, but theirs is a constant improvement process, like Linux and others who practice constant-improvement, as opposed to scrapping something and starting over and bringing in a whole new pile of bugs.
All that said, WP is vulnerable to any theme's or plugin's bugs... I'm only using ones from the WordPress site / repository. Doesn't mean they're bug-free, but they're generally well tested and so far, no problems.