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Good point, but crappy title. "Real" CMS packages could learn a thing or two from WordPress.

• yannis 17y ago
  'Absolutely'. As the author notes usability and ease of use matter. They are the number one feature to the end user. There is one more and this is more for developers, wordpress database is made up of ten tables! Within these ten tables they have managed to slot in a multi-blog feature. This compares to over 50 for Drupal for example. As a developer, I can get into the internals of WP and make modifications fairly easily - in most cases there are plugins to assist as a starting point. Overall WP has managed to carve a sexy niche in the hearts of users and developers even if the code is not so beautiful and sexy, not to mention the language!
  • robryan 17y ago
    You could argue though that having a table like wp_usermeta can actually be more confusing that having explicit tables for things. I guess it's all a trade off, personally when hacking away at it I'm not a big fan of how wordpress is laid out internally but I do have to say it's a lot better than something like Joomla
• Semiapies 17y ago
  I think the intent of the title is that "real" CMSes shouldn't be so easily beaten by WordPress.