Lesson 7: Getting Started with WordPress

WordPress is a powerful and popular content management system (CMS) that empowers millions of websites around the world. It was initially developed in 2003 as a blogging platform but has since evolved into a versatile CMS used by individuals, businesses, and organizations of all sizes.

At its core, WordPress is an open-source software built using PHP and MySQL. This means that anyone can use, modify, and distribute it freely, making it highly customizable and adaptable to various needs. The open-source nature of WordPress has fostered a vibrant community of developers and contributors who constantly work to improve its functionality and security.

One of the key features that make WordPress so popular is its user-friendly interface. Even those with little to no coding experience can easily create and manage websites using WordPress. Its intuitive dashboard allows users to add and edit content, customize themes, and install plugins without the need for technical expertise. This accessibility has made WordPress the go-to choice for bloggers, small business owners, and individuals looking to create their own online presence.

WordPress offers a vast library of themes and templates, both free and premium, allowing users to create visually appealing and professional websites with ease. These themes can be further customized to match specific branding or design requirements. Additionally, WordPress provides a wide range of plugins, which are extensions that enhance the functionality of a website. With plugins, users can add features like contact forms, social media integration, e-commerce capabilities, search engine optimization tools, and much more.

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Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards

Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards
Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards

The founders of FerretDB, an Open Source document database using PostgreSQL as the database backend, is working with different stakeholders on developing a standard for document databases, the same way as SQL was created as a standard for relational databases in the 1980s, with the objective of reducing the risk of vendor lock-in for users.

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Wayland is pretty good, actually

Wayland is an interesting beast. X11, for all its faults, does a lot for the desktop environment. If you’re stretched for time, you could – in theory – just slap a panel onto the default X11 window manager and call it a day. The modern landscape of desktop environments built on top of X11 exists because developers have gotten really good at eschewing X11’s built-in crusty junk for their own new and shiny junk, so that things work as you’d expect them to. For the most part, this kinda works – with enough hacks, you can get things like variable refresh rate, fractional scaling, et cetera. The problem here is that X11 definitely was not built for those things. Variable refresh rate works, but only if you’re using a single monitor, and mixed refresh rate monitors in a single X session don’t work at all outside of the hardware cursor. Fractional scaling is a hack. Compositing in general is optional and is sort of just stapled onto the existing architecture. X11 does do what it needs to do, which is display windows, but it’s kinda garbo when you need it to do anything more advanced. Wayland is what happens when issues with the dominant windowing protocol have been festering for decades. It throws away everything and establishes a core set of standards that must be adhered to, along with a (very large) set of extensions that can be optionally implemented. The website https://wayland.app/ shows all the protocols worth knowing, and a lot more on top of that. It’s kinda like Vulkan, in a sense: the core has the basics, and everything else is extensions that can be queried for by clients. Wayland is such a massive improvement over X11 it absolutely boggles the mind that people try to claim otherwise. I’m glad we’re finally at a point where Wayland has clearly won, and developers are finally free to focus their efforts on the clearly superior choice, instead of wasting more time trying to hack X11 into the 21st century.