WordPress has become the most popular platform in existence for publishers of blogs and many other kinds of websites. It is easy to use, free, and has a flexible feature set which comfortably accommodates a huge variety of topics and needs. Ease of use by non-technical people is a core development priority. While commendable, that necessarily complicates the invisible, behind the scenes, logic of the WordPress code.
As people discover what they can do with WordPress they think of more and more features it "would be nice to have." Thousands of plugin developers have been happy to meet this need. So, today, the typical WordPress install consists of the basic WordPress core code plus five to twenty plugins that add specific features needed by a particular application.
A programmer typically gets involved when:
- The user can't find a plugin that does what they need.
- The user notices page loads have become unacceptably slow.
- Website users begin to complain they can't connect and/or get error messages.
All of these are symptoms which will probably require a programmer to fix. We will be publishing a series of posts with specific details about some of these problems as well as potential solutions.
