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Because of Matt Mullenweg's strange philosophy of keeping only barebones features in "core" Wordpress and having all other functionality be delivered by plugins
by LordAtlas 7y ago
Because of Matt Mullenweg's strange philosophy of keeping only barebones features in "core" Wordpress and having all other functionality be delivered by plugins. This means that even to have a basic site, you just have to install various plugins to deliver key features, which leads to the bloat, instability and security problems that Wordpress is infamous for.
- Angostura 7y ago> strange philosophy He likes to avoid bloat and keep things modular. That's not a 'strange' philosophy
- creshal 7y agoModularity isn't free. Wordpress' obsession with it – and bad implementation of it – leads to bizarre, 80000+ recursion level deep callback hells even on simple pages once you have 3-4 plugins running.
- johnward 7y ago> This means that even to have a basic site, you just have to install various plugins to deliver key features, You can run a perfectly fine blog using core.