Spending time with my thoughts on Ontekusuto has brough WordPress into a new light, for me at least. Is WordPress a blogging system or a CMS? As the WordPress core matures together with it’s plugin ecosystem it’s versatility and potential increases, especially in the hands of creative designers & developers.
At it’s heart WordPress has a few core capabilites which have been stable for quite some time:
An extensible application engine (which is how Plugins are integrated).
A simple & extensible information storage (database) infrastructure.
An extensible permissions infrastructure.
A flexible theme infrastructure which provides a UI for sharing information with others (social media).
An Admin UI that makes publishing content easy.
All this is to suggest that WordPress is actually an operating system. Maybe this is one reason why I can envision a future in which all of my personal information resides in WordPress. I can see my email (.. or all messaging!) client residing within WordPress. I can see collaboration file storage (like Dropbox or Ubuntu One) residing within WordPress. I can see my social networks residing within my WordPress (tightly embedded with an extensive set of it’s inherent permissions). I can envision new optionsn for contextual search based on information exchange between WordPress installations.
I would suggest that WordPress is maturing into a new type of entity: an Online Presence Operating System (OPOS).
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WordPress Operating System
Spending time with my thoughts on Ontekusuto has brough WordPress into a new light, for me at least. Is WordPress a blogging system or a CMS? As the WordPress core matures together with it’s plugin ecosystem it’s versatility and potential increases, especially in the hands of creative designers & developers.
At it’s heart WordPress has a few core capabilites which have been stable for quite some time:
All this is to suggest that WordPress is actually an operating system. Maybe this is one reason why I can envision a future in which all of my personal information resides in WordPress. I can see my email (.. or all messaging!) client residing within WordPress. I can see collaboration file storage (like Dropbox or Ubuntu One) residing within WordPress. I can see my social networks residing within my WordPress (tightly embedded with an extensive set of it’s inherent permissions). I can envision new optionsn for contextual search based on information exchange between WordPress installations.
I would suggest that WordPress is maturing into a new type of entity: an Online Presence Operating System (OPOS).