Scripting News: Sunday, April 5, 2026

Sunday, April 5, 2026

The discourse about WordPress#

• I love all the new discourse about WordPress. #
• It was so quiet until this week, now I'm getting a much better view of the landscape.#
• I started developing seriously around WordPress almost three years ago. I've been developing this kind of software since the late 80s if you can believe that. #
• What's missing on the web -- software for writers. #
• I believe more all the time that WordPress is the natural way to store and present writing on the web and hook up to all the social webs, to actually redefine what a social web is. There should just be one social web, btw -- not 18. If there are 18 and they don't interop with each other then none of the deserve to call themselves the web. There is only one web, by definition. #
• The WordPress community has been very introspective, but it's time to make a difference for the whole web, and of course imho it is prepared to do that. #
• I want something inbetween the tiny little text boxes of the twitter-like apps, and the block editor (aka Gutenberg) of WordPress. I think there should be a dozen great editors that work with WordPress and then hopefully every CMS that comes along. Collectively, WordPress has taken too much territory -- writing is very different from site development and administration. I want to start the development of that ecosystem, and help new products get to market with interop and driven by what users/writers want. #
• I wrote this at bullmancuso yesterday, it was worth repeating here. And if you used to follow me on Twitter, please sign up again from that link. It's my new home there. #

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