In move away from PHP, WP launches new, open sourced Admin interface

built on Node.js and React

[bill]

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/wordpress-com-gets-a-new-face-and-joins-the-javascript-age/ [wired.com]

WordPress.com Gets a New Face and Joins the JavaScript Age

WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today for managing blogs, posting content, and reading other people’s sites. If you’re a regular user, you’ll notice a new look and feel. If you’re a code geek, you’ll notice something more remarkable below the surface: JavaScript instead of PHP.

[IanKelley]

I'm endlessly grateful that I never went down the WP rabbit hole. I set it up for a couple of people years ago, started to get familiar with the code and said hell no. It's such a mess.

Can't ignore it since it powers so many sites but I'd never use it on purpose.

[cnvi]

Hoping this new API finally allows for a FIND IN ADMIN plugin or native feature that allows an admin to quickly find and be auto navigated to a search results for a front end label or database entry. There are some plugins that offer bits and pieces but none that does it all.

[3zero]

Looks like I've wasted my time learning to understand PHP if all these cms systems are now going to JS :)

[keyplyr]

Last count from BebopBot

WordPress: 6,806,986 sites
Joomla!: 1,291,189 sites
Drupal: 629,098 sites

[explorador]

Nothing intentional, it was just out of curiosity: Google Search "my [blogging/cms] was hacked"

Wordpress: 5.650.000
Joomla: 532.000
Drupal: 572.000

Note how Drupal has higher numbers of hacked sites, interesting, it just a search result

[ergophobe]

I don't think that means anything

1. There are way more WP sites than Joomla and Drupal and they are overwhelmingly blogs. So people are more likely to blog about getting hacked and run more sites. Ergo, super high number of reports.

2. Drupageddon was a bloodbath. Most public facing sites that didn't get patched were hacked within six hours. I went 4/6 and got lucky on the one site that was e-comm. So that was huge press. [fireroaddigital.com...]

3. How much security "chatter" there is on the web is a function of two things: the number of exploits and the seriousness with which people treat them. It's essentially like any crime stat - it's a function of the number of crimes committed and the rate at which those crimes are reported/prosecuted (depending on what sort of stats you're looking at). In general, I think Drupal treats security more seriously in the sense that the security team issues notices for *any* module that has a known exploit. Wordpress typically only issues security notices when it affects core, not every plugin. But plugins are the main attack vector typically.