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Brief thoughts on WordPress's JavaS'creep

February 01, 2025

(Previous title: Wordpress and Software Freedoms)

WordPress is a free software blog platform, and is incredibly easy to use. I had other options, but went with this for things such as comments and editing on a web site.

Things have changed since the last time I logged on here. I have since become a huge supporter of the free software movement (as opposed to a small one), started publishing and contributing to GPL and AGPL licensed free software, among other licenses, and have become an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. I now use mostly free software, with the goal of eventually using only free software.

I have started using LibreJS on my computer, which has become a Thinkpad T60 running 100% free software (including the bootloader), as I had discussed possibly doing in some online spaces a few years back.

I now have issues with WordPress telling me that JavaScript is "disabled" for me, unless I opt to use the classic editor. While I don't mind the classic editor too much, WordPress's JavaScript should be licensed to work with LibreJS, but for some reason it isn't, and I keep seeing text saying that "JavaScript must be enabled." The thing it, it is enabled.

I'm glad I stopped using WordPress and other tech debt heavy systems when I did.


Anton McClure / asm@aperture.akron.oh.us
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