While the community (rightly) celebrates the tremendous growth of WordPress as a platform, there’s a significant disconnect between what community members know about WordPress and what folks outside the community know.
Getting outside the WordPress bubble – by participating meaningfully in other conferences, conversations, and communities – helps bring new ideas into our community and also helps us bring WordPress into new contexts.
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T H E WO R D P R E S S B U B B L E
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• 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
16. 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.
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18. “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/
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B OYS I N B U B B L E S
“History repeats ... first as tragedy, then as farce"
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U N D E R T H E WO R D P R E S S D O M E ?
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U N D E R T H E WO R D P R E S S D O M E ?
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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