The only way to "save" WordPress is to destroy it. The core was not written before PHP had classes, but the project chose to maintain backwards compatibility wi

The only way to "save" WordPress is to destroy it. The core was not written before PHP had classes, but the project chose to maintain backwards compatibility with a project that was. It's the worst popular codebase, and as this shows, it can't be modernized without changing it into something fundamentally different.