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Personally I think despite being unpopular with many developers (I dropped PHP/WP for most purposes many years ago due to the amount of hate it was getting and
by ilaksh 5y ago
Personally I think despite being unpopular with many developers (I dropped PHP/WP for most purposes many years ago due to the amount of hate it was getting and general poor reputation) and the problems of the past, the concept of plugins and what you can do with WordPress is terrific.
And not something that anyone who really understands software engineering should scoff at.
I would go so far as to invite the downvotes with a comment like this: WordPress may now be the most powerful (low-code/no-code) application development platform ever created.
What is the WordPress of the 2020s? Something built on web assembly or TypeScript or Python or whatever maybe?
- rchaud 5y ago> I would go so far as to invite the downvotes with a comment like this: WordPress may now be the most powerful (low-code/no-code) application development platform ever created. And you would be correct. The WP API is mature and stable, so much so that tools around fast WP scaffolding are already available. You can create a site in Webflow, export the HTML and use a tool like Pinegrow Theme Converter to attach WP functions to HTML elements, such as Posts loop, ACF fields, WP Customizer, etc. No PHP knowledge needed. Pinegrow will export a fully featured WP theme to your site folder, and handle enqueuing the functions and stylesheets. You never have to open functions.php again. Add to that the vast library of plugins for things like Ecommerce, online courses, appointment scheduling, user accounts, social networking etc. and you can create a pretty complex prototype.