I would like to say something positive about WordPress.

I use WordPress, many of my clients use WordPress, a lot of you reading this probably use or even develop WordPress. But in it’s simplicity of installation, and vast library of plugins, themes and other add-ons, it is quite simply a resource hog, isn't it?

I mean a simple one-post blog easily racks up the PHP memory usage and will still be quite slow in handling multiple visitors.

And if you are hosting clients using WordPress, you cannot tell me that not one of them didn’t approach you about increasing their memory limit, or their site being incredibly slow after being hit with a moderate amount of traffic.

WordPress, in all its glory… is a big old memory hog.

But... despite all that, I like WordPress. It’s easy to use, update and modify. And I have to admit, I never liked the idea of Jetpack in the past, but I am absolutely warming to it as a way to get the bloat out of WordPress ~ make it slimmer, lighter and faster ~ and put it into a separate but equally controlled and compatible framework.

And as Jetpack itself is now getting so much bigger, maybe there should be more than one Jetpack type module; in fact a whole series of Jetpack type modules, covering different aspects and grouping different function types.

Makes sense to me, but what do I know.