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Posted by Ojong Obasi
Ojong Obasi
6,561 Points

Is teamtreehouse website build from wordpress?

I was wondering why I should use a framework like wordpress, if I am comfortable with my design and programming skills. Taking teamtreehouse with the powerful , smart designers and programmers they have, why are they using a framework(wordpress) rather than just designing and programming something of theirs from cratch?

5 Answers

Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points
Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points

I don't think so. What makes you think that they are using WP?

austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points
austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points

They don't use wordpress, a site like this is way too large a scale for wordpress to handle on its own.

Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points

Especially the Workspaces, Console....

Ojong Obasi
Ojong Obasi
6,561 Points
Ojong Obasi
Ojong Obasi
6,561 Points 
           "http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/python-2-vs-python-3","title":"Python 2 vs Python 3","date":"2014-08-11 09:00:36","author":"Kenneth Love","thumbnail":"http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2.8-150x150.jpg"}

Are they just hosting uploads with wp-content?

Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points

Ah, you mean the Treehouse Blog. Yes, for maintenance reasons I can imagine they are using WP, because for blogs it's not a bad system.

Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points
Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points

I believe it's RoR, jQuery, and bunch of other JS frameworks.

Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points

He means the Treehouse Blog.

PS:

And PHP or Ruby on Rails, of course.

Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points

The blog is built on Wordpress and it makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel when wp already provides great tools to build a easily maintainable blogging platform.

Philip G
Philip G
14,601 Points

(already written in previos post)

Michael Choi
Michael Choi
6,332 Points

Right on

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Treehouse isn't in the business of building blog software and Wordpress powers some blogs that dwarf the Treehouse blog by several orders of magnitude.

Ojong Obasi
Ojong Obasi
6,561 Points

Didn't say treehouse should be in the business of building softwares . Was just wondering why its using a framework like wordpress , when I know it can build its own blog software. What's the advantage of it using the wordpress blog framework to it building it's own blog software? There are many forum softwares that dwarf the treehouse forum software. Why isn't it using them...?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

There are many forum softwares that dwarf the treehouse forum software. Why isn't it using them...?

Integration. The blog doesn't tie into the site proper, the forum does.

Ojong Obasi
Ojong Obasi
6,561 Points

Thanks!