Angelo Bertolli

I like WordPress–a lot. It’s been my saving grace for constructing websites without having to write the code from scratch. But it’s gotten very, very bloated. I took a look at version 3.0 and the upcoming changes. It looks ok, but it worries me for the future. Now users actually expect updates and new features on a regular and frequent basis.  Whatever happened to just wanting something that worked well, and was patched for bugs and security?  I’m also worried about backward compatibility of things like themes and plugins.

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It seems that the world WordPress themes is chock full of questionable use of GPL code.  I really wonder if there is someone I can report this to.  Let me give an example.  There is a site that sells a “membership” to download their themes.  Great, always happy to see someone getting paid for their hard work.  But then I read about the license on this individual’s work.  So just like so many other WordPress themes, it is questionable whether or not you can create a theme at all that isn’t under a GPL compatible license.  What was even more shocking was this bad English: (more…)