I have to admit, I’m a little bit confused by this — and the first — post.

A digital agency that the W3C selected in its RFP process has decided to use another CMS for its project. Why does WP Tavern care so much and why is it trying to undermine that decision?

I don’t know anything about this agency, but its portfolio is solid and I take it at its word that this is the best solution for this project.

Moreover, the way Craft is being portrayed isn’t really accurate. No, it isn’t OSS based on the OSD license, but the source code is available. Moreover, Craft has been around for quite some time and its developers have been around even longer — those of us who used ExpressionEngine back in the day used their plugins/extensions. In fact, Craft was created because EE was stagnant and not modernizing with the times.

Craft is a niche CMS but it could be argued that it serves its target users — agencies like Studio 24 who need to create a custom solution but don’t want to build a custom CMS — better than WordPress for lots of reasons.

More to the point, Craft is agreeing to work with the agency to improve accessibility (something that will impact all of its users, not just Studio 24) on schedule with the timeline of the project. It would be an unreasonable ask for a project like WordPress.

So I don’t get it. This is one website and one agency. Why the criticism/investigation?

Maybe the question posed by the person quoted at the end of the article should be the real focus: why is it easier for an agency to work with a team like Craft or Statamic than it is to work with WordPress?