When you call something “simple,” “easy,” or “self-explanatory” in product documentation, you’re insulting your reader. You should stop doing that. Let’s put it in another context to illustrate my point. Scene: local auto repair shop. Your mechanic emerges from under the hood holding a small piece of rubber between grease-marked pointer finger and thumb. “Here’s […]
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What Matt Mullenweg is Getting Wrong In the 5.0 Release
But first, an attempt to empathize with the core team. The reality that many of us on the outside need to grasp is that Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0 needs to ship, and soon. The urgency, far from being a conspiracy theory or hostile takeover, is that it’s already late at this point. Many of the […]
The WordPress Community Deserves the Why on the Timeline of v5.0
The leadership of the WordPress project must be transparent with the “why” of the release date of WordPress version 5.0 and the new editor. Initially, Matt Mullenweg said “April” during the last State of the Word address. There was an audible laugh from my side of the room, but more importantly, there was no “why” […]