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Weird to see this downvoted. When it came out, the Wordpress admin was beautiful and smooth---and everything else was ugly and clunky. It was like the iPhone vs
by pjungwir 10y ago
Weird to see this downvoted. When it came out, the Wordpress admin was beautiful and smooth---and everything else was ugly and clunky. It was like the iPhone vs feature phones. The handful of built-in themes looked great too. Whatever you think of Wordpress today, compared to its contemporary competitors it was outstanding.
- toyg 10y agoIt also produced very clean and valid XHTML out of the box, which was considered very important at the time; and made writing plugins trivial. It's important to remember that the competition at the time was Movable Type (Perl, complicated to install and extend, terrible output, expensive) and Blogger/blogspot (can't self-host, can't extend, limited control, again crappy output). WP was a dream in comparison.