Ever wonder why WordPress approaches things the way it does? Or how something with so many contributors manages to hold together and grow, year after year?
Is there some quirk in the code, or the way we talk, that strikes you as, well, bizarre?
The single biggest strength WordPress can claim is not the user experience. It’s not the platform’s hundreds of contributors. It’s not even its phenomenally widespread adoption.
Nope. It’s the philosophies that underlie all that.
One benefit of those philosophies is a common trait of nearly all successful projects: A unified system for making decisions.
So let’s take a look inside the philosophies of WordPress core — and see how those principles guide the WordPress project.
From there, we’ll look at how defining philosophies in your own projects will make them better, too.