Comments on: WPWeekly Episode 79 – Alex King And WPHelpCenter

By: JLeuze

JLeuze — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:50:39 +0000

@Jeffro - Definitely, I'd like to see WordPress.org use BuddyPress to place more emphasis on the community and facilitate things like groups for specific projects that need more attention. I think when it comes to involving the the community and building a functioning organization, a lot could be learned from projects like Drupal and Ubuntu.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:43:17 +0000

@JLeuze - I was just as shocked as anyone when Matt told me the answer. I'm hoping a new WordPress.org redesign takes a page out of the BuddyPress.org site which I find to be greatly designed around the project.

By: JLeuze

JLeuze — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:40:16 +0000

@Jeffro - It sounds like WordPress.org needs to start eating more of its own dogfood!

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:18 +0000

With regards to the trivia question, I asked Matt at WordCamp New York if WordPress.org was not powered by bbPress then what was it powered by. The WordPress.org website is comprised of static HTML files which can be validated by looking at the source code. So Oliver Schlöbe got it right by saying it was all handmade. Mind you, this is about the WordPress.org site not anything connected to it such as the forums, codex, etc.

Also since you’re the only one to get it right, I’ll double your points so this week, you get 6.

By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:45:01 +0000

@Nicolas - You might love Adminimize on that matter.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:19:54 +0000

I would love to have something like the WP Manage Plugins Plugin for all of the back-end. Would make it really easy to hide certain things from users that only want (need) to post posts or pages and be able to upload media files.

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:51 +0000

Ryan is correct, it is bbPress.

By: Oliver Schlöbe

Oliver Schlöbe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:04:38 +0000

According to Matt Mullenweg it’s driven by the community, so my answer is: powered by community. :p

More seriously, I’d say it’s not based on a CMS at all, it’s handmade.

Going to listen to the episode now… didn’t make it last night.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:15:36 +0000

bbPress I believe is the answer to the question.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:28:43 +0000

Maybe wordpress.org runs on Drupal… or maybe GPLPress… or maybe wpmu.org actually runs wordpress.org