what i hate about wordpress
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What I Hate About WordPress
(and how you can help!)
by Mark Jaquith (JAY-kwith)
markjaquith.com@markjaquith
Sunday, December 6, 2009
WordPressSucks*
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*All software sucks.
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Wuh?! MECHANICAL PRESET BUTTONS!
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The good news:
We know that WordPress sucks
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Good software sucks less with each release.
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The road to less suckage:
•Knowledge
•Skills
•Orchestration
•Time
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Knowledge"You don't know what
you don't know."
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Admin Menus
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FAIL
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Cross-taxonomy queries
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register_taxonomy( 'Director', 'post' );
http://example.com/director/stanley-kubrick/
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category = 'reviews'AND
director = 'Stanley Kubrick'
Combo FAIL
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Search
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Search for "24"
No... twenty FOUR
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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!
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Upgrades
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• 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?
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• 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!"
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WYSIWYG
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• 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.
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Page Navigation
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• Blog
• About
• Flickr Photostream
• Contact
• Thanks for contacting me!
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•Menu creator tool
•Pick the pages, posts, URLs, etc you want to link to
•Rearrange
•call with the_menu( 'main' );
Solutions?
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How you can help
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• 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.
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"Together, we can make WordPress suck less."
— me
:-)
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