Why WordPress 2012 Will Cut The Competition To Pieces
WordPress is now the leader in CMS (Content Management System). But there is something about WordPress that makes it look like it's stuck in the late 90s in terms of technical features - it lacks the feature of a 4th generation programming language. This means that if you want to design your own theme layout, for example, you have to know HTML and PHP in order to create or customize one.
Not anymore. The latest themes now have a drag and drop feature. You can actually create your own layout just by pointing and clicking and dragging and dropping objects on the canvass. And PageLines is pioneering this new generation of WordPress themes.
But what makes WordPress 2012 more exciting is the innovations that are taking place elsewhere in the worldwide web. The cloud is becoming much more accepted where you can virutally store all you files and work on them online and nothing is local to your desktop. Furthermore, there are businesses out there developing technologies that allow you to integrate the services from different cloud services. And this could only transalte to one thing - that the internet will eventually be everyone's massive computer. It's as if you are working locally on your computer. And this is what we are expecting this 2012 - that more WordPress themes and plugins will be integrating with the cloud as well. More drag and drop features will be used across domains and platforms.
Internally, in its own dashboard, what we want to see are toolboxes that you can drag and drop to add functionality. For example, when creating a contact form nowadays, you have to install a plugin and then set the plugin's configuration. As part of the last step, you then need to add shortcodes to the pages you want the contact form to appear. Short codes are part of the 3rd generation language really. They are like functions and procedures. What we are expecting this 2012 for plugins is that they do away with these short codes and create a drag and drop functionality. WordPress needs to provide the plumbing. There needs to be a centralized toolbar for third party plugins. If they build, they will come. And these plugins can also come from cloud services too so it is important for WordPress to go in this direction.
WordPress 2012 is definitely a big year to watch out for. It is WordPress maturing as a technology.
Not anymore. The latest themes now have a drag and drop feature. You can actually create your own layout just by pointing and clicking and dragging and dropping objects on the canvass. And PageLines is pioneering this new generation of WordPress themes.
But what makes WordPress 2012 more exciting is the innovations that are taking place elsewhere in the worldwide web. The cloud is becoming much more accepted where you can virutally store all you files and work on them online and nothing is local to your desktop. Furthermore, there are businesses out there developing technologies that allow you to integrate the services from different cloud services. And this could only transalte to one thing - that the internet will eventually be everyone's massive computer. It's as if you are working locally on your computer. And this is what we are expecting this 2012 - that more WordPress themes and plugins will be integrating with the cloud as well. More drag and drop features will be used across domains and platforms.
Internally, in its own dashboard, what we want to see are toolboxes that you can drag and drop to add functionality. For example, when creating a contact form nowadays, you have to install a plugin and then set the plugin's configuration. As part of the last step, you then need to add shortcodes to the pages you want the contact form to appear. Short codes are part of the 3rd generation language really. They are like functions and procedures. What we are expecting this 2012 for plugins is that they do away with these short codes and create a drag and drop functionality. WordPress needs to provide the plumbing. There needs to be a centralized toolbar for third party plugins. If they build, they will come. And these plugins can also come from cloud services too so it is important for WordPress to go in this direction.
WordPress 2012 is definitely a big year to watch out for. It is WordPress maturing as a technology.
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