Comments on: Wordpress: Plugin architecture makes it great, but a long way to go for release engineering

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Wordpress Hosting — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:29:24 +0000

Wordpress has become the most popular used platform in its category. A recent search i conducted on Alexa found wordpress.com to be number 22 in the top most visited websites “globally”.

Wordpress not only makes it easy to create a blog but it has also been used to develop websites, simply because it makes it so easy to update.

Regards,
Richard

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By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:56:23 +0000

Hey Colin,

I definitely agree that some kind of updater is required. I’m fairly new to the whole blogging thing and I’m just trying to find out which plugins are really useful too.

I wonder if there is a site with the top plugins voted for by how many installs they appear on?

All the best,

Richard

By: Colin Charles Web Log » Blog Archive » DotOrg: Wordpress, Eventum visits

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:03:06 +0000

[...] just love updating WordPress. He mentioned that there’s a plugin that downloads the new package, unpacks it, [...]

By: byte

byte — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:55:41 +0000

@ty: I’m sure its a lot less, if you’ve got no plugins, and so forth… Maybe if you follow their ftp it over method or something.

@james: Update mechanisms are being built into software and I think its significant web-ware have it too.

@biatch0: Maybe its time to audit plugins, and created a “supported” and a “everything” set. Looks like there can be a business here, seeing that so many people are into blogs…

By: biatch0

biatch0 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:05:19 +0000

A plugin updater thing would be nice… but the speed at which plugins show up and fall off the face of the earth forever would make for a very cluttered system eventually ala gentoo portage. Just an updater for plugins that have been around long enough to not fall off the face of the earth within the next week perhaps?

By: James

James — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:29:01 +0000

Work has been looking at typo3, and it’s got a nice integrated extension manager, with dependency resolution. There’s no update mechanism that I can see though.

By: Ty

Ty — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:28:44 +0000

I will admit to being fairly new to blogging. But the 14 steps in updating the wordpress without automation is information very interesting to me. It shows me that a lot of work goes into updating the wordpress, which is very admirable. Keep up the great work.

Thank you,