Using WordPress as an application framework

In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications.

Topics:

An outside look at WordPress

• WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software
• Redesigning The Toast
• Timber, Twig templating for WordPress
• WordPress MTV
• Advanced Custom Fields 
• CMB2

WordPress as an application framework

• Building a database abstraction layer
• Nomad Base
• ElasticPress, by 10up
• SearchPress, by Alley
• Elasticsearch on WordPress.com
• Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch