208 - ClassicPress V WordPress

December 03, 2020 00:57:49
208 - ClassicPress V WordPress
WP Builds
208 - ClassicPress V WordPress

Dec 03 2020 | 00:57:49

/

Show Notes

0.75x
1x
1.25x
1.5x
2x
0:00
...

Debate with Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley

The debate season ends with one where Nathan and I may genuinely  disagree. I’m ready to storm off telling Nathan where to stick the next season.

Setting up the Debate

So for those who don’t know what ClassicPress is we had better say:

ClassicPress (David)

The appeal of ClassicPress is that it offers a chance to take the good and remove things that were less democratically added, or seem bloated, or otherwise problematic to many.

So Hello Dolly and Akismet stopped being preinstalled.

XML-RPC (a security risk?) is due to come out of core, and probably the premade privacy page was a knee jerk reaction to GDPR is going to be going as well.

It might not have been suggested, but it’s tempting to suggest they look at taking out post formats (something from Matt Mullenweg’s love of Tumblr before he bought it).

They have a concept of core plugins, so you could add them back in as needed, but make the core fast (what’s not to like?).

The also want to make the minimum requirement for PHP to 7. This will cut out bloated low quality code in WordPress.

More practically I can offer a way of avoiding the maintenance cost that comes with Gutenberg. It’s software development being done on all our live sites creating issues for us or indirectly to the authors of plugins we use, and which we pay for.

WordPress (Nathan)

Other Episodes

Episode 0

February 29, 2024 00:46:21
Episode Cover

363 – No Script Show, Episode 5 - What is component based web design?

So we’re back with another ‘podcast hijack’, in which the WP Builds podcast is temporarily taken over by a new podcast that I’m doing...

Listen

Episode

January 09, 2020 00:54:29
Episode Cover

161 - Why don't you believe in us?

Discussion - Why don't you believe in us? So here we are again, talking about the book 'Watertight Marketing' by Bryony Thomas. This is...

Listen

Episode 0

July 09, 2024 01:36:12
Episode Cover

This Week in WordPress #301

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 1st July 2024. You can find it here: https://wpbuilds.com/2024/07/09/this-week-in-wordpress-301

Listen