The Full Stack Leader

A Brand New Approach to WordPress

What would we build if we were starting from scratch today, knowing all we’ve learned over the past 13 years of building WordPress?

Matt today officially announced the new WordPress.com: Dance to Calypso.

Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work by dozens of the most talented engineers and designers I’ve had the pleasure of working with (127 contributors with over 26,000 commits!).

I’m incredibly proud to be part of this effort. API-driven, JavaScript-based, responsive design, and now open source.

More coverage:

AUTHOR & TAGS

Lance Willett

calypso, github, open-source

6 responses to “A Brand New Approach to WordPress”

Jim Grey

November 23, 2015

Congratulations! It’s hard and risky to move off a legacy codebase into the future. And yet, here you are, in the future!

LikeLike

Reply
Lance Willett

November 23, 2015

Thanks, Jim. It’s exciting to be a part of it. Without change, there is no progress.

LikeLike

Reply
Daniel Schildt

November 24, 2015

New usage experience did make me come back to the service. Good work with the UI speed.

LikeLike

Reply
1. Lance Willett
  
  November 25, 2015
  
  Thanks Daniel, glad you like the changes.
  
  LikeLike
  
  Reply
criticschoicesite

April 12, 2016

Thank you and congratulations ! It’s a huge step.

LikeLike

Reply
IdealisticRebel

April 18, 2016

Reblogged this on IdealisticRebel's Daily View of Favorites.

LikeLike

Reply