--- title: 434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast,... description: CodePen's Marie and Chris discuss their continued use of WordPress for the CodePen blog, podcast, and documentation. WordPress is hosted on a subdomain with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/434-still-proudly-on-wordpress-for-our-blog-podcast-and-documentation-kd4tjugv0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast, and Documentation | daily.dev og:description: CodePen's Marie and Chris discuss their continued use of WordPress for the CodePen blog, podcast, and documentation. WordPress is hosted on a subdomain with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/434-still-proudly-on-wordpress-for-our-blog-podcast-and-documentation-kd4tjugv0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kD4TJuGv0.png og:image:alt: 434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast, and Documentation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast, and Documentation **[CodePen](https://daily.dev/sources/codepen)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CodePen's Marie and Chris discuss their continued use of WordPress for the CodePen blog, podcast, and documentation. WordPress is hosted on a subdomain with its own deployment process separate from the main monorepo. They highlight WordPress's strong RSS support as a key reason for using it for their podcast, and explain how Custom Post Types were used to organize their rewritten docs for version 2.0. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why would a company still use WordPress for documentation instead of a custom docs tool? WordPress can work well for documentation because its Custom Post Type feature lets teams organize docs into a structured, distinct content type separate from blog posts. CodePen rewrote their documentation for version 2.0 using a Custom Post Type in WordPress, finding it made the docs feel more organized while keeping WordPress hosted separately from their main application codebase. _Weighing WordPress against dedicated docs tools is exactly the kind of tradeoff developers debate on daily.dev._ ### Why is WordPress a good fit for publishing a podcast? WordPress handles RSS feeds well, and a podcast is fundamentally an RSS feed containing audio file links, so WordPress's native RSS support makes it a practical publishing platform for podcasts. CodePen publishes its CodePen Radio podcast through WordPress alongside its blog for this reason. _daily.dev surfaces these kinds of platform tradeoffs for developers picking tools around RSS and content publishing._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From libraries to small businesses: Why WordPress remains the open web’s backbone](https://daily.dev/posts/from-libraries-to-small-businesses-why-wordpress-remains-the-open-web-s-backbone-0hg6bwsqc) · All Things Open · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [442: Pens are Actually Websites](https://daily.dev/posts/442-pens-are-actually-websites-liyxwy59g) · CodePen · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [\#235 – Rob Pugh and Tony Arcangelini on Bringing Podcasting to Jetpack](https://daily.dev/posts/235-rob-pugh-and-tony-arcangelini-on-bringing-podcasting-to-jetpack-uboaykvrv) · WP Tavern · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net](https://daily.dev/posts/wordpress-debuts-a-private-workspace-that-runs-in-your-browser-via-a-new-service-my-wordpress-net-wglzsnk73) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/434-still-proudly-on-wordpress-for-our-blog-podcast-and-documentation-kd4tjugv0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast, and Documentation","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/434-still-proudly-on-wordpress-for-our-blog-podcast-and-documentation-kd4tjugv0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/434-still-proudly-on-wordpress-for-our-blog-podcast-and-documentation-kd4tjugv0"},"datePublished":"2026-07-15T14:48:58.245Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:02:13.306Z","description":"CodePen's Marie and Chris discuss their continued use of WordPress for the CodePen blog, podcast, and documentation. 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