208 - ClassicPress V WordPress

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

Dec 03 2020 | 00:57:49

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Show Notes

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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)

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