It’s just wild that I wrote this in February. Mullenweg’s been melting down for most of a year at this point, and there’s no end in sight. My heart goes out to the people who work there – kids, when somebody offers you money to quit you take that money and run, every time – but ultimately his tantrum doesn’t matter. It’s all free software; people might depend on the code, but nobody depends on the companies. That’s sort of the point.
In the hopes of making life a bit easier for smaller shops caught up in that nonsense, I’ve consolidated all my WordPress-on-SQLite changes into this repo, that I’ve called PressOnward. It’s not much of anything, it’s the tarball from WordPress.Org copied into Git with my modest hacks integrated. It’s mostly a convenience fork for me, but I’ll try to keep it current.
But it’s nice; you can have WordPress without needing babysit MySQL, run a big machine or really much of anything. Installation is a breeze, and if you turn off comments and put WP-Supercache in front of it, it’ll be perfectly happy humming along day to day on the tiniest VM you can find.
I hope that’s useful for somebody.