When Johannes Gutenberg’s press came out, people mostly used it to print the same religious text monks had been copying.
The thing that changes the world.įor those who don’t know we kicked off the Gutenberg project around the beginning of the year, I talked about it and we did our first public releases in June, and the team has been doing weekly updates of the public beta plugin that’s available for anyone to try out in their wp-admin. It’s time for WordPress’ next big thing, the thing that helps us deal with our challenges and opportunities. We have challenges (user frustrations with publishing and customizing, competition from site builders like Squarespace and Wix) and opportunities (the 157 million small businesses without sites, aka the next big market we should be serving). WordPress’s growth is impressive ( 28.5% and counting) but it’s not limitless - at least not in its current state. We’re democratizing publishing - and democratizing work - for everyone, regardless of language, ability, or economic wherewithal. It’s about freedom, about possibility, and about carving out your own livelihood, whether it’s by making a living through your site or by working in the WordPress ecosystem itself. WordPress has always been about websites, but it’s not just about websites. The printing press ushered in social, political, and economic sea changes. Luther’s 95 Theses were printed on a press, rocking Europe, and he issued “broadsheets.” Broadsheets became newspapers newspapers enabled democracy. The elite monopoly on education and government started to crack. That means that while this isn’t an unquestionable win, it usually is one.Movable type was about books, but it wasn’t just about books. With all those reasons why not, there’s one really good reason to do it: an updated WordPress plugin is more secure well over 95% of the time than an un-updated one. Don’t use this solution of PHP-based auto-updates if your site looking weird when a plugin update doesn’t work will cause you (or someone else) to get fired.
Don’t enable auto-updates this way if you don’t have a solid backup system in place. There is some need for obvious provisos here: don’t auto-update plugins and themes that you don’t trust to keep working. There are plugin-based solutions for it, but in this video we cover the method that’d be more favored by those who love writing PHP: the code that makes WordPress auto-update your plugins and themes. Keeping WordPress plugins and themes up-to-date is currently still a more complex task. Keeping WordPress core up-to-date has become so easy in the last few years that I barely even thing about it.
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