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With the Wordpress fiasco only getting worse, I have been working hard on launching my MIT-licensed open source CMS. I bring to the table with me running high traffic news publications on my own custom CMS'es and my learnings from it. What scales and what doesn't. Hopefully the community will like it and embrace it. On the surface, it sounds like a simple project, but CMS'es are quite complex than they appear (hence the time taken).

There are a lot of things the CMS universe accepts as normal, which shouldn't be the case. Even without the drama, Wordpress simply sucks as a scalable solution for large traffic sites without blowing up the hosting costs. Given the ongoing fiasco, I even think if Wordpress has been deliberately built this way as a funnel to upsell the hosted commercial offering to large scale news publications.

Hopefully, this benefits everyone affected by the Wordpress fiasco, as that is my primary goal. This has been a decade long project close to my heart and it is finally coming to an end.

I am also documenting this journey on Medium if anyone's interested.

https://medium.com/creativefoundry/newsletter




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