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Mark Jaquith

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Mark Jaquith writes Mark on WordPress, a personal blog at markjaquith.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Developing on WordPress using Git”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2010–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in WordPress threads on theme licensing and version control. The posts cover WordPress themes being treated as GPL-derivative code and developing WordPress core with Git and git-svn.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Thoughts on WordPress

Most-linked posts?

  1. Developing on WordPress using Git
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-27
  2. Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. davidgerard · 2013-12-17
    I believe Wordpress have stated that they regard Wordpress themes as derivative code of Wordpress, and the PHP of a theme should therefore be GPL, else constitute a copyright violation: http://ma.tt/2010/07/theme-are-gpl-too/ http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-th...

    Comment linking /2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-derivative-of-wordpress/

    on “Wordpress Bootstrap 3 Starter Theme – MIT License”
  2. icey · 2010-07-17

    Submitted Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. markjaquith · 2011-08-18
    WordPress has a lot invested in SVN, so it wouldn't be a trivial switch. I imagine we'll switch eventually, but there are no concrete plans at this time. I actually use Git and git-svn to do all my WordPress core development: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/developing-on-wo...

    Comment linking /2011/05/26/developing-on-wordpress-using-git/

    on “WordPress, Git-ified”
  4. anu_gupta · 2015-03-27

    Submitted Introducing Cache Buddy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. gmays · 2018-06-19

    Submitted Making ScoutDocs: React as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. gmays · 2018-02-22

    Submitted Simple WordPress deploys using Git as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. zachshallbetter · 2011-08-18

    Submitted Developing on WordPress using Git as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. skeltoac · 2011-05-27

    Submitted Using Git to work on a project in Subversion as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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