Introducing Post Forking for WordPress

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23 pointsmmahemoff3 comments

Why reinvent version control inside of WordPress? I'd rather version my content in git and build a static site from that.

I think there's a real opportunity for github, or a github app, to revolutionize publishing by building on the existing content collaboration capabilities of git. I'm not the first to have this idea [1]; there are already people executing on it [2].

[1] http://paulhammant.com/blog/github-as-a-cms-to-end-cmses.htm...

[2] http://prose.io/

Because WordPress is a really mature platform for publishing that is vastly simpler than just about anything else out there, especially considering the power it wields. This is a really great enhancement to the platform and I'm excited to use it. Before, it was pretty difficult to collaborate on posts, especially after the initial publish date.

I'm surprised that blogging software still hasn't gotten the equivalent of "Suggest Edits" that Quora uses on answers. This would go a long way to making sure comments are comments on the content discussed and not issues of delivery like grammar, word choice and fact checking.

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