How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017

Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by diziet on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:54PM (#13254826)

To play the devil's advocate, how fundamentally different is it from searching for a gem that allows some function and copy-pasting some example other than that a non-software engineer can do it?

I know, it caters to different kind users, and libraries are typically meant for code consumption (and show the source code up-front and encourage peer contribution), but there is a similar vector here.

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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by simonw on Monday December 26, 2016 @01:05AM (#13257197)

It was a one-click install - I clicked a button in the Wordpress admin panel and I could start using the functionality. No text editor, no SSHing anywhere, everything happened in my browser. Definitely fundamentally different from copy and pasting code or installing a gem.

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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by ddorian43 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:32PM (#13255129)

Check out drupal. It offers a lot of flexibility compared to any other cms that I've seen. And ~all modules are open-source and meant to work together, building blocks. Though it's been some years since I've used it, it was at the time.

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Re:How WordPress Ate the Internet in 2016 and the World in 2017 by pjc50 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:34PM (#13255518)

> other than that a non-software engineer can do it?

That's the entire advantage, surely?

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