What I Hate About Wordpress

What I Hate About WordPress (and how you can help!) by Mark Jaquith (JAY-kwith) markjaquith.com @markjaquith Sunday, December 6, 2009

WordPress Sucks* Sunday, December 6, 2009

*All software sucks. Sunday, December 6, 2009

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Wuh?! MECHANICAL PRESET BUTTONS! Sunday, December 6, 2009

The good news: We know that WordPress sucks Sunday, December 6, 2009

Good software sucks less with each release. Sunday, December 6, 2009

The road to less suckage: •Knowledge •Skills •Orchestration •Time Sunday, December 6, 2009

Knowledge "You don't know what you don't know." Sunday, December 6, 2009

Admin Menus Sunday, December 6, 2009

FAIL Sunday, December 6, 2009

Cross-taxonomy queries Sunday, December 6, 2009

register_taxonomy( 'Director', 'post' ); http://example.com/director/stanley-kubrick/ Sunday, December 6, 2009

category = 'reviews' AND director = 'Stanley Kubrick' Combo FAIL Sunday, December 6, 2009

Search Sunday, December 6, 2009

Search for "24" No... twenty FOUR Sunday, December 6, 2009

GOOD NEWS! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/ • Google Summer of Code project by Justin Shreeve • Plugin that implements powerful, pluggable search API • Supports multiple backends: Google, MySQL fulltext, Sphinx, etc • Much more relevant results! Sunday, December 6, 2009

Upgrades Sunday, December 6, 2009

• Could cause plugins to break • Forced to upgrade to latest WordPress version — no security updates for old versions • No idea what is in plugin upgrades — is it a security ﬁx or a complete rewrite? Sunday, December 6, 2009

• We collect plugin compatibility info — maybe we could work active installs into that. • We're considering oﬀering security-only upgrades to the previous branch until the new version is in beta: e.g. 4.5 would be supported until 4.7 is in beta. • Plugin authors will be able to convey an upgrade message, "Security update, everyone upgrade!" Sunday, December 6, 2009

WYSIWYG Sunday, December 6, 2009

• Markup isn't always perfectly clean. • Paste from a website, get their <font style="Arial"> ?! • Tempts you with the promise of desktop editor control, falls short. • Bizarrely complicated pop-ups. Sunday, December 6, 2009

Page Navigation Sunday, December 6, 2009

• Blog • About • Flickr Photostream • Contact • Thanks for contacting me! Sunday, December 6, 2009

Solutions? • Menu creator tool • Pick the pages, posts, URLs, etc you want to link to • Rearrange • call with the_menu( 'main' ); Sunday, December 6, 2009

How you can help Sunday, December 6, 2009

• http://trac.wordpress.org/ Open a new ticket, comment on existing one. Test. Patch. Advocate. • Run the gauntlet: wp-hackers mailing list • Weekly IRC meetings in #wordpress-dev on Freenode • Reach out to core devs and Jane Wells — we'll get someone to mentor you and point you at a problem that you can help solve. Sunday, December 6, 2009

"Together, we can make WordPress suck less." — me :-) Sunday, December 6, 2009

markjaquith.com coveredwebservices.com @markjaquith Sunday, December 6, 2009

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