Outside the WordPress Bubble

John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
G E T T I N G O U T S I D E T H E
WO R D P R E S S B U B B L E

T H E WO R D P R E S S B U B B L E

• Look at where you are spending your time
• If 95% of your podcasts, blog feeds, web reads, twitter
follows, email newsletters, meetups, slack channels,
conferences, friends, Facebook groups, and print reads
have “WP” or “Press” in their names, you are limiting your
experience
• WordPress is wonderful: a powerful, life changing,
democratizing software project and a (generally) welcoming
collaborative community behind it
• But, there is more to life than WordPress

Going To
WordCamps?
Stop

Going To
WordCamps
Stop
Only

T H E E C H O C H A M B E R

WO R D P R E S S D O M I N A N C E
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

F O R R E S T E R WAV E

Automattic appears signiﬁcantly less than other vendors
in selection cycles where key scenarios require
integration with other enterprise systems . . . some
customers are cautious of the complexity — and quality
— involved in employing . . . third party components.
The downside of WordPress' usability and accessibility
is, in some customers' experience, content sprawl and
reduced governance.
WordPress' simple elegance suits organizations with
simple requirements, but the innovative aspirations of
many enterprises . . . require more innovation and
sophistication. WordPress lags behind . . . in areas such
as context awareness.

http://jboye.com/blog/wordpress-the-most-used-cms-in-the-world-and-still-not-good-enough/

“Despite all these apparent strengths, very
few organisations consider WordPress as
an option when they go through a CMS
selection exercise. Large and complex
organisations seem to mostly ignore it.”
http://jboye.com/blog/wordpress-the-most-used-cms-in-the-world-and-still-not-good-enough/

B OYS I N B U B B L E S
“History repeats ... first as tragedy, then as farce"

L I F E I N T H E B U B B L E

A DJAC E N T C O M M U N I T I E S
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-‐web-‐design/

A DJAC E N T C O M M U N I T I E S

A D O B E

D I S T R I B U T I O N S

https://www.drupal.org/project/df

U N D E R T H E WO R D P R E S S D O M E ?

S U M M A RY
• Be open to ideas from other communities
• Don’t focus so exclusively on WordPress
that you miss the forest for the trees
• Widen your perspective
• Retain your balance

John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.comJohn Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
http://everydaythingsetc.com/2012/05/11/holiday-in-a-bubble-literally/

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