Best of WordPress — June 2025

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   WordPress vs. Django: Which Is Better for Your Website?

   WordPress and Django CMS serve different audiences and use cases. WordPress excels in ease of use, making it ideal for bloggers, small businesses, and non-developers who want quick setup with extensive themes and plugins. Django CMS offers superior performance and security out-of-the-box but requires coding expertise and higher development costs. WordPress wins for content management, customization without coding, community support, and affordability. Django CMS is better for complex enterprise applications requiring custom development and high scalability. Most users should choose WordPress for its user-friendly approach, while Django CMS suits developers building sophisticated web applications.

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   Make WordPress Core·43w

   Introducing a new SQLite driver for WordPress – WordPress Playground

   WordPress has released a new SQLite driver that provides better MySQL compatibility through advanced query parsing and emulation. The driver features a complete MySQL lexer and grammar parser written in PHP, supports complex SQL operations like subqueries and UNION statements, and includes MySQL information schema emulation. It's currently available as a feature flag in the SQLite Database Integration plugin v2.2.1+ and powers WordPress Playground. The new architecture enables more robust MySQL feature support and lays groundwork for future database engine compatibility within WordPress.

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   Hacker News·45w

   A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web

   FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) is a new decentralized package management system for WordPress, now operating under the Linux Foundation. Created in response to concerns about centralized control and governance issues in the WordPress ecosystem, FAIR provides an alternative distribution layer for plugins and themes while maintaining compatibility with existing WordPress installations. The project aims to offer better infrastructure and more accountable governance without forking WordPress itself, allowing users to choose between WordPress.org and FAIR for plugin distribution.

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