What I Hate About Wordpress
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Mark Jaquith discusses the shortcomings of WordPress, including issues with upgrades, search functionality, and WYSIWYG editors. He emphasizes that while all software has flaws, improvements can be made through knowledge and community involvement. Jaquith encourages users to participate in development efforts to help enhance WordPress's functionality and usability.
What I Hate About Wordpress
- 1. What I Hate About WordPress (and how you can help!) by Mark Jaquith (JAY-kwith) markjaquith.com @markjaquith Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 2. WordPress Sucks* Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 3. *All software sucks. Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 5. Wuh?! MECHANICAL PRESET BUTTONS! Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 10. The good news: We know that WordPress sucks Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 11. Good software sucks less with each release. Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 13. The road to less suckage: •Knowledge •Skills •Orchestration •Time Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 14. Knowledge "You don't know what you don't know." Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 15. Admin Menus Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 17. FAIL Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 19. Cross-taxonomy queries Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 20. register_taxonomy( 'Director', 'post' ); http://example.com/director/stanley-kubrick/ Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 21. category = 'reviews' AND director = 'Stanley Kubrick' Combo FAIL Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 22. Search Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 23. Search for "24" No... twenty FOUR Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 24. GOOD NEWS! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/ • Google Summer of Code project by Justin Shreeve • Plugin that implements powerful, pluggable search API • Supports multiple backends: Google, MySQL fulltext, Sphinx, etc • Much more relevant results! Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 25. Upgrades Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 26. • Could cause plugins to break • Forced to upgrade to latest WordPress version — no security updates for old versions • No idea what is in plugin upgrades — is it a security fix or a complete rewrite? Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 27. • We collect plugin compatibility info — maybe we could work active installs into that. • We're considering offering security-only upgrades to the previous branch until the new version is in beta: e.g. 4.5 would be supported until 4.7 is in beta. • Plugin authors will be able to convey an upgrade message, "Security update, everyone upgrade!" Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 28. WYSIWYG Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 29. • Markup isn't always perfectly clean. • Paste from a website, get their <font style="Arial"> ?! • Tempts you with the promise of desktop editor control, falls short. • Bizarrely complicated pop-ups. Sunday, December 6, 2009
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- 32. Page Navigation Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 33. • Blog • About • Flickr Photostream • Contact • Thanks for contacting me! Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 34. Solutions? • Menu creator tool • Pick the pages, posts, URLs, etc you want to link to • Rearrange • call with the_menu( 'main' ); Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 35. How you can help Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 36. • http://trac.wordpress.org/ Open a new ticket, comment on existing one. Test. Patch. Advocate. • Run the gauntlet: wp-hackers mailing list • Weekly IRC meetings in #wordpress-dev on Freenode • Reach out to core devs and Jane Wells — we'll get someone to mentor you and point you at a problem that you can help solve. Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 37. "Together, we can make WordPress suck less." — me :-) Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 38. markjaquith.com coveredwebservices.com @markjaquith Sunday, December 6, 2009