What Years of WordPress Development Taught Me About Modern Frontend Systems

<p>WordPress was created during a very different era of the web.</p> <p>An era where:</p> <ul> <li>monolithic servers were normal</li> <li>PHP applications lived directly on

<p>When Andrés and I started building websites, WordPress was one of the first things we tried.</p> <p>It made sense. There were themes, plugins for almost everything, and you

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<blockquote> <p>"Your content layer and your presentation layer don't have to be married anymore — and that divorce might be the best thing that ever happened to your