Plan to do it right at least the second time

WordPress’s founder just turned 25. Imagine how many people got to do something in their early twenties that’s being used by 80% of the product’s target, bloggers that’s it. I don’t know anyone like that in person.

Congrats Matt, but that’s not what I want to write about in this post. I want to write about committing to do something right. I’ve been familiar with WordPress since version 1.something (1.3 or 1.4 I believe) and it was not my first CMS to use (PHP Nuke was the first one). I’m mainly a content guy, meaning that most of the websites I’ve created or worked for were  content websites or websites that used content in a significant percentage.

Committed

WordPress was by far the most efficient, optimized, bug free and simple to use CMS. It was also flexible trough plugins and that’s one thing that matters. Trough time I saw the WordPress team listening to users and implementing features that some used trough plugins and also offering excellent documentation and support for free.

WordPress is now more than a CMS, it’s a real platform that can adjust to different website profiles, not just hard-core content.

Not Committed

One example of not committed, at least for me, is Microsoft. I can’t look at Vista and not think that they didn’t solved problems years and years after being discovered. Even now windows animation for minimizing and maximizing is activating itself for no reason.

Rockstar is also one such example, not being able to solve disappearing textures in GTA and managing to make the game run smoothly on mainstream PCs.

WordPress is the example that with committment and dedication you can build big things with little help. Congrats again!