In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications.

Topics:

An outside look at WordPress * WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software * Redesigning The Toast * Timber, Twig templating for WordPress * WordPress MTV * Advanced Custom Fields * CMB2

WordPress as an application framework * Building a database abstraction layer * Nomad Base * ElasticPress, by 10up * SearchPress, by Alley * Elasticsearch on WordPress.com * Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch