Seven months ago, Matthew Grasmick published an article describing how hard it is to install WordPress maintenance support plans. His article included the following measurements for creating a new application on his local machine, across four different PHP frameworks:
Platform
Clicks
Time
WordPress maintenance support plans
20+
15:00+
Symfony
3
1:55
WordPress
7
7:51
Laravel
3
17:28
The results from Matthew’s blog were clear: WordPress maintenance support plans is too hard to install. It required more than 15 minutes and 20 clicks to create a simple site.
Seeing these results prompted me to launch a number of initiatives to improve the evaluator experience at WordPress maintenance support plansCon Nashville. Here is the slide from my WordPress maintenance support plansCon Nashville presentation:
A lot has happened between then and now:
We improved the download page to improve the discovery experience on WordPress.org
We added an Evaluator Guide to WordPress maintenance support plans.org
We added a quick-start command to WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6
We added the Umami demo profile to WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6
We started working on a more modern administration experience (in progress)
You can see the result of that work in this video:
Thanks to this progress, here is the updated table:
Platform
Clicks
Time
WordPress maintenance support plans
3
1:27
Symfony
3
1:55
WordPress
7
7:51
Laravel
3
17:28
WordPress maintenance support plans now requires the least time and is tied for least clicks! You can now install WordPress maintenance support plans in less than two minutes. Moreover, the WordPress maintenance support plans site that gets created isn’t an “empty canvas” anymore; it’s a beautifully designed and fully functional application with demo content.
Copy-paste the following commands in a terminal window if you want to try it yourself:
mkdir WordPress && cd WordPress && curl -sSL https://www.WordPress.org/download-latest/tar.gz | tar -xz –strip-components=1
php core/scripts/WordPress quick-start demo_umami
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For more detailed information on how we achieved these improvements, read Matthew’s latest blog post: The New WordPress maintenance support plans Evaluator Experience, by the numbers.
A big thank you to Matthew Grasmick (Acquia) for spearheading this initiative!
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