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Part of me likes this answer. WordPress has a very practical problem catching up with the past. WordPress developers, including me, have talked a lot about technical debt. Ways to avoid new liabilities and reduce existing liabilities. Considering that we are working on a framework that has been around for more than 14 years, it is not surprising that we are proposing to code PHP versions that have been around for more than 10 years. I am constantly frustrated because I hope that my plug-in has as many users as possible. As long as PHP 7 or PHP 5.5 is required, it will have a positive impact on the acquisition of users. Therefore, it may be better to write code intentionally. The
I have talked about how WordPress builds applications using the latest tools provided by rest APIs and so on for several years. Then, due to the need for the latest PHP framework solutions and developer experience, we used laravel to build the SaaS product referenced by the WordPress plug-in. Technical liabilities such as financial liabilities are not all bad. If the home owner has no mortgage, most people can not become the home owner, so they often receive mortgage loans. Don’t forget that in the real world, the WordPress post editor is an infinite edge box generator. Thousands of plug-ins are implemented on millions of sites. Plug ins such as advanced custom fields create word press and word press. Users can customize the post editor and add unique custom codes to the site. The
There are great shortcomings. Same as the site to be maintained. These are people who want to write articles and do not worry about continuous website security and maintenance, such as medium, squarespace or WordPress. Reasons for using COM. Gutenberg press is an interesting metaphor. It not only mechanizes printing by revolutionizing access to information, but also brings standardization. The service that bundles the innovation of open web into a simple package is excellent. But I think that thousands of websites running CMS (such as WordPress) are eager to find something between a standardized digital experience and a fully customized digital experience. The
I would like to say that we stand on the shoulders of a giant who provides free tools in open source that we can modify, branch and improve. Although it is true, the reality is that we are also troubled by their technical debt. Male WordPress’ enthusiastic efforts to be compatible with previous versions have led to serious technical liabilities, but this is also the reason why WordPress is so successful. From sales sites to SMB and enterprise sites, the compatibility with previous versions is the sales method of word press. After upgrading to WordPress 5.0, if you need to rewrite the custom code of the post editor and upgrade all plug-ins before saving other posts (most of them are incompatible with 5.0), millions of sites will have problems. The
Because all liabilities are biblical concepts of Jubilee that are forgiven at the same time, I use the metaphor of \
