PHP
Private
WordPress
The open source CMS that powers 40%+ of the web.
Gutenberg
MySQL
Type
PHP / backend system
Stack
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
Year
2003
Duration
8+ years
Overview
What I built & why
Free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Started as a fork of b2/cafelog in 2003.
Powers over 43% of all websites according to W3Techs surveys.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ Plugin + theme ecosystem
- ✓ Gutenberg block editor
- ✓ REST API
- ✓ Multisite networks
- ✓ GPL v2 license
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
Mobile traffic was outpacing desktop two-to-one, yet the existing experience was effectively unusable below 768px.
The solution
Wrote a zero-downtime migration pipeline that mirrored writes to both systems, then cut over after a clean shadow-read week.
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