What I’d say now. I wrote this in 2012, when SOPA and PROTECT IP looked like they might kill the platform inside a year. The 2026 version of this thinking lives at Is WordPress Dead in 2026? — same question, fourteen years of “WordPress is dead” cycles in between. Leaving this here because the threat…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2011 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2011 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2009 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2008 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2008 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2006 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2006 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…
From the archive. I wrote this back in 2006 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…