October 16th, 2024 – Our WordPress team has spent the past few years making unique plugins for our clients. Intially, we wanted to place this on the WordPress directory so all WordPress users could download and enjoy them. Unfortunately, we ran into early issues with what was likely the beginning of mounting changes by the co-founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg that prevented our plugins from being submitted to the directory.

Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of drama in the open source WordPress community which makes the future of the internet standard a little shaky. During this time over 150 paid contributors have quit, several volunteers have stopped commiting code, and a small but growing number of plugin makers have pulled their code form the WordPress.org repository.

Based on all of this we feel it is our duty to help the internet consider a second option to WordPress, ClassicPress.

ClassicPress was founded in 2018 by a developer who did not want to use the new Gutenberg / block editing system Matt and WordPress decided was the new direction for the software. While their marketshare and community are still quite small today, at the moment their system has the best potential to become the Dr Pepper to WordPress’ Coca-Cola. The ClassicPress code is frequently updated, secure, and appears to load much faster than current WordPress versions while providing a classic WordPress experience.

Our team will begin building our current plugin pipeline as well as unreleased plugins such as our SEO plugin and pending subscriptions plugin for ClassicPress today with the target of getting at least one new plugin added to ClassicPress every quarter.

We currently believe this will require double the man hours to do though hopefully less, but in the end will provide enormous benefits to our clients and the web in general.