Author: Malcolm Peralty
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 6 – The Migration Plan
This is the final part of a six-part series. [Part 1] made the case for splitting WordPress into Classic and Next. [Part 2] talked about the kernel. [Part 3] talked about the admin and editor. [Part 4] covered performance and security. [Part 5] talked about the plugin economy and the…
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 5 – The Plugin Economy
This is part 5 of a six-part series. [Part 1] made the case for splitting WordPress into Classic and Next. [Part 2] talked about the kernel. [Part 3] talked about the admin and editor. [Part 4] covered performance and security. This post is about the plugin economy and the contracts…
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 4: Performance and Security
This is part 4 of a series on splitting WordPress into two products, Classic and Next. [Part 1] made the case for the split. [Part 2] talked about the kernel. [Part 3] talked about the admin and editor. This post is about performance and security. I’m grouping them together because…
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 3 – The Admin and Editor
This is part 3 of a series. [Part 1] made the case for splitting WordPress into Classic and Next. [Part 2] talked about the kernel underneath. Now I want to talk about what’s happening above the kernel, in the admin and the editor. I want to say something up front…
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 2 – The Kernel
This is part 2 of a series. [Part 1 made the case for splitting WordPress into Classic and Next.] This post gets into the runtime itself. What Classic keeps, and what Next burns down. A quick aside on PSR, since I’m going to use it a lot Before I get…
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What Might WP Next Look Like: Part 1 – The Case for the Split
Every plugin author, agency lead, and host I know has some version of this argument running in their head, and most of them aren’t going to write it down. So I’m writing it down, in public for anyone to push back on or dig deeper into. A bit of background…
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From DrupalCon to GitHub: Building WP Governance
I was at DrupalCon Chicago earlier this year representing Pressable as part of the Automattic for Agencies presence there. If you don’t know, I spent over two years at Acquia as a Technical Account Manager (eventually becoming a Senior TAM) before moving to Pressable, so DrupalCon felt a bit like…
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A Hard Goodbye, and a Very Exciting Next Step
Starting at Pressable as a Technical Account Manager has been exciting. Genuinely exciting. It has also been a harder transition than I think people sometimes assume when they see a new title and a new company logo. Leaving Acquia was not easy for me. Not because I was running from…
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When Hosting Stops Being a Commodity
I work in hosting, so I spend a lot of time thinking about the gap between what website hosting costs and the value people expect from it. Note: I currently work for Pressable, and previously worked for Acquia. I also co-ran a small managed WordPress hosting company called PressTitan for…
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The Patience of Stars
I have been watching videos about people using AI for all kinds of things, and one of the ways people have been using it that was interesting to me was to write a novel. I have co-authored a book before with my now-wife, Annie, but I have never completed one…
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AI Improvements – Again
I’ve done this twice before, and so wanted to try again to see how much AI has improved over the last two and a half years. My first attempt was in December 2022, and my second was in March 2023. I gave ChatGPT 5.1 the following prompt: Can you write…
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Two Years at Acquia
I have made it past two years at Acquia, and I am very pleased with my personal progress and growth. For those interested, check out my one year review. In November 2024, I was promoted to a Senior Technical Account manager. I have been told by my manager that I…
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