Three years is a long time in this field. … and back in that time frame, I was warning about the approach Realmac was taking with its theme and plugin environment, and the instabilities that were clearly arising in the product as a result of this unconstrained “ecosystem”. I argued for greater control over the API on Realmac’s part. And as I struggled with trying to understand where RapidWeaver fit into the problem domain, it increasingly became clear that patching in CMS capabilities with tools like WebYep and Pulse was a half-assed way to go about things. (I also think Realmac has gone off in too many directions since then, but that’s a different conversation).

But in the three years since, a lot has happened in the WordPress camp too … its maturing into a full-blown CMS with version 3.0 (2010), the advent of Pods CMS which provides sophisticated custom content capabilities. And powerful frameworks became possible with the integration of child themes in 3.0, as well. These three things are real game changers, and they make WordPress a worthy opponent in the CMS war.

Note the time frame … I don’t recall my ardent defense back then, but RapidWeaver, the web design field, WordPress, and my business have all changed in the past three years. If you want bragging rights … that you were right all along … well, it’s not the same world that it was back then, and given where things were at in 2009, I think my position might have made sense then.

If you’ve got a link to that old thread, though, I’d be curious to read it and see where I was at back then.

You can see me here with a grin from ear to ear.
Three years or so I uttered my critique about RW – while you defended it ardendly.
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Reading your article I see shimmering through the lines my “old” arguments.
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Kind regards

Juergen