Answer Type: WordPress

What is the main purpose of your website and do you aim for career growth as a developer yourself? If you are a business owner looking for a small business website, WordPress will probably suffice for starters. If you are a developer looking for the right programming stack, then it depends on your incentive and…

Short answer: stick to PHP and JavaScript for extending the core platform. Long answer: Technically, it makes sense to rely purely on PHP and JavaScript for features directly related to the core WordPress platform. WordPress websites are built with backward compatibility in mind. That said, you are not limited to those choices for several reasons.…

WordPress would still be a leading force in the web field 5 years from know. Despite its contradictory codebase (which is quite intriguing once you spend the time to study it), there are objective factors adding up to its success. ~30% of the web is now powered by WordPress. Numerous markets see WordPress as a…

There’s a number of these – some more specific for certain industries. I’ve covered some of the common ones in Misconceptions by Clients Looking for a Web Platform and 15 Obstacles That Enterprises Report in WordPress and Development Partners. If I have to sum up the ones I heard or read pretty much every week:…

I was about to give Wix some props, but they didn’t give me a chance to, after browsing their website for merely 2 minutes. First off, they have disabled text selection on their homepage. Are we back in 2001, anyone? They claim to be SEO optimized and all that… I wonder how is that even…

Free themes distributed by the official WordPress.org Theme Directory are safe due to their reviewing policy. A theme cannot be released or updated without going through a detailed and thorough manual code review (combined with a few additional automated steps). The free directory is also quite limiting in terms of features. Themes are only meant…

Some WordPress hosts let you connect your WordPress folder to a git repository in different ways. One popular option is setting up a plain git repository within your project folder. It won’t be connected to any hosted version control system – but it is still a git that you can update in the same manner.…

Contributing to WordPress Can Take Various Forms Individual contributors are those who support the WordPress initiative in different directions: Submitting bug reports. Submitting patches for known bugs. Reviewing WordPress themes. Creating and submitting free themes and plugins. Helping out in the support forums. Translating WordPress (and popular plugins) to another language. Organizing meetups and WordCamps…