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?<\/p>\n
Is there some\u00a0quirk in the code, or the way we talk, that strikes you as, well, bizarre<\/em>?<\/p>\n 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\u00a0widespread adoption.<\/p>\n Nope. It’s the\u00a0philosophies that underlie all that.<\/p>\n One benefit\u00a0of those philosophies is a\u00a0common trait of nearly all successful projects: A unified system for making decisions.<\/p>\n So let’s take a look inside the philosophies of WordPress core \u2014 and see how those principles guide the WordPress project.<\/p>\n From there, we’ll look at how defining philosophies in your own projects will make them better, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0quirk in the code, or the way we talk, that strikes you … Continue reading Why WordPress Works this Way<\/span>