It is difficult to tell a story without having to go back to the origins of certain things, and more so in the world of software, which develops at a fast pace and sometimes does not have time to . tell you that WordPress.com will use Calypso for administrationand that will not be an easy task but yes exciting!
Calypso is a tool developed by 127 developers and designers who have worked for 20 months to design a public version of this tool, under the orders of Matt Mullenweg (CEO of Automattic).
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What will Calypso bring to WordPress.org?mainly modernity and freshness, although we will lose things like related links (although not for long)1WordPress under Calypso will offer a new and different experience of managing WordPress websites, unrelated to WordPress.com.
What is Calypso?
- Incredibly fast environment. And something more minimalist than the current wp-admin!
- It is written exclusively in JavaScript, taking advantage of the libraries Do not give Y react.
- It has an API that is 100% developed, open and available to all developers.
- It’s Social, with stats, likes, and notifications.
- 100% responsive. It can be displayed on small devices, in the sidebar or full screen.
- Very fun to write, especially uploading images using drag & drop technology (drag & drop).
- Fully multisite for advanced users, so you can manage hundreds of WordPresses from one place.
- Able to manage plugins and themes on JetPack sites, including auto-updating them.
- 100% open source, with all future development happening in the open.
- Available for anyone to adapt and make their own, including a custom frontend builder, distributions, or to work with web services, in addition to WordPress.com.
- Centralization of API services, currently under WP REST API Y WordPress.com REST API.
If you are a WordPress user self-hosted (.org) you can also take advantage of the new features by installing the plugin JetPack.
The interface of the new version of WordPress is simpler, more refined. It is 100% adaptable to all types of screensbeing able to write post, control access statistics or change settings easily from a PC, a tablet or a mobile.
You can add photos to your WordPress post using the technology of drag and drop saving a few clicks in the process. It will also be easier for you to share the content on the different social networks after publishing a new post.
Technically WordPress started from scratch and the hosted version is now completely separate from the core of WordPress. Now it is an interface to more easily interact with the CMS functionalities. These technical choices have made it easy to develop Mac/OSX app for WordPress. This version is encoded in javascriptbeing able to generate many calls to the API and also makes use of Node and React.
You will be able to carry out from Calypso any action that you usually carry out from the WordPress dashboard (wp-admin) such as editing posts/posts, deleting or creating new posts/posts.
Manage menus and everything related to the creation, elimination and/or modification of menus.
Activate or deactivate plugins, activate automatic updates for plugins that allow it, which will be very useful for forgetful 🙂
And any other task related to WordPress installations that you have hosted on Hosting with WordPress.org installations (self-hosted) or hosted on WordPress.com indistinctly.
In the following video we review the installation of Calypso on Mac/OS X and we link a WordPress Pack from to WordPress.com through JetPack to manage it from Calypso.
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