Usability of WordPress

  • Resolved tspofford

    (@tspofford)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve been using WordPress for a long time (10 years, more or less) but I’m old (72) and not a coder, developer, or designer and during that time it’s gotten more and more difficult for people like me – basically, hobbyists. I took a college CS class in WP a couple of years ago and it helped but I barely recognize a lot of the things in the newer versions. I appreciate all the work being done and know that WP has become much, much stronger and secure but …

    Has anyone considered forking a Lite version, “for the rest of us?”

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    There isn’t a lite version planned, but there has been a slow focus on increasing usability.

    Have you tried Gutenberg yet? It’s the new post/page editor that will be in WordPress 5.0, and it’s being built with usability as its core focus.

    You can try it now by installing the Gutenberg plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/

    It’s still a work in progress, but it is progressing rapidly.

    Thread Starter tspofford

    (@tspofford)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you. I haven’t tried Gutenberg but will. I saw mention of it but thought it was a reference to the old Gutenberg book project that compiled out-of-copyright books as ASCII text and made them available for download by, especially but not exclusively, blind folk when accessibility wasn’t a thing yet.

    I told you I was old.<g>

    Thanks for the tip!

    Tim

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    You’re welcome! 🙂

    I’m also a fan of http://www.gutenberg.org/ and glad to see that https://archive.org/details/texts took that baton and basically ran with it quite far.

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