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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by mooreds on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:03PM (#13254676)
A bit fluffy. I think that WordPress will continue to see strong adoption and the rest API will definitely help things, but I don't see it taking over the world.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by 20161112 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:07PM (#13254690)
Good job by Automattic's PR hacks on pushing the CMS ("not just blogging") angle.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by freehunter on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:46PM (#13254812)
Three out of the four major broadcast TV stations in my city use Wordpress for their website. It's definitely not just for blogging.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by theSpaceOctopus on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:22PM (#13254736)
It's definitely not something from Automattic, smart people work there.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by 20161112 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:38PM (#13254789)
No, of course not. Some guy at Forbes just decided to wake up one morning and extol the virtues of WordPress.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by theSpaceOctopus on Sunday December 25, 2016 @01:39PM (#13254970)
> No, of course not. Some guy at Forbes just decided to wake up one morning and extol the virtues of WordPress.

In spite of your sarcasm you pretty much nailed it, except the guy doesn't work for Forbes. He's part of the contributor network, which is essentially a few thousand bloggers that get paid based on how much traffic they generate for the site.

Do your homework next time.

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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by mwfunk on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:59PM (#13254845)
That seems...totally plausible? Occam's Razor and all.
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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by ourcat on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:22PM (#13254738)
Yes. The new REST API should move everything on. It's turned it into a fairly decent platform which can potentially do a lot more than a CMS.
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